La isla de cemento

Robert Maitland, a successful architect, is driving home in his Jaguar when a tire blowout sends him off the motorway and stranded on a concrete island, hidden among London's lanes, embankments, and bridges. Injured and surrounded by relentless traffic, Maitland discovers that escape is impossible. Like an urban Robinson Crusoe, he must survive using the wreckage of his car, his ingenuity, and an increasingly fragile will. In this haunting parable about modern alienation, J. G. Ballard transforms a seemingly ordinary accident into a physical and psychological nightmare, revealing the hostile underbelly of a world designed for perpetual motion.