I like to think I am not the only instructor who has read a book only after their student has written on it... So I'm obviously not qualified to comment professionally, and you can and should read up in the latest ARIEL (doi.org/10.1353/ari.2024.a925427). In her diss., Suzanne brilliantly compared this novel to JG Ballard's Crystal World: sinister voyages into the tropical interior in which the colonialist explorers are turned from heralds of imperial "progress" into fodder for the environment and its own subversively loopy temporality.

Lots of hendiadys, which I liked. More Christian mysticism than I would have preferred (I think??).