224 pages
English language
Published April 30, 1988 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
224 pages
English language
Published April 30, 1988 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility. While trying to make it to his destination, his chaotic path leads him to try to come to terms with an apocalyptic phenomenon in the jungle that crystallises everything it touches.