num_pages: 256
description: At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation and sets out for the river’s source.
language: English
title: The Day of Creation
titlecomplete: The Day of Creation
genres: Thriller, Africa, Dystopia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1046
publisher: Picador