J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.
A strange and wonderful book.-- "Guardian"
A very impressive book by a deeply serious writer, the originality
and power of whose vision can be felt.-- "Times Literary
Supplement"
By arranging a world drought to kill off the majority of people,
[Ballard] brings his characters to a state of timeless, arid
obsession with what is left of water and of their own selves...[A]
sensitive, baroque study in decadence.-- "Daily Telegraph"
The experience Mr. Ballard offers is mystical...It is weird; it is
grotesque; it is magnificently Gothic.-- "Sunday Times"
The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature...[N]o one reading
Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect.--Jonathan
Lethem "New York Times Book Review"
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