num_pages: 175
description: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns into crystal -- now reissued in new cover style. Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most men flee the area in terror, afraid to face what they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest. There is a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wields a crystal cross, and a tribe of lepers search for Paradise!
language: English
title: The Crystal World
titlecomplete: The Crystal World
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, British Literature, Apocalyptic, Literature, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 4310
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Harper Perennial