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Cold Skin Albert Sanchez Pinol

Cold Skin By Albert Sanchez Pinol

Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol


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Summary

On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the earth. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, instead just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name.

Cold Skin Summary

Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol

On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the earth. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, instead just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is woods, a deserted cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. Then night begins to fall.

Cold Skin Reviews

A troubling, hammering and glorious novel. -- David Mitchell
A thrillingly vivid hallucination . . . it overtook my dreams . . . Sanchez Pinol creates a struggle for survival that is, at the same time, a meditation on humanity. An island story, following a long line through Robinson Crusoe right up to The Beach. * * The Times * *
Superbly controlled and creepy. * * Independent on Sunday * *
Remarkable . . . an addictive and unsettling read. -- Alan Warner
A brilliantly suspenseful debut novel. * * Spectator * *

About Albert Sanchez Pinol

Albert Sanchez Pinol was born in Barcelona in 1965 and is an anthropologist and writer. His writing has appeared in several journals, and Cold Skin is his first novel. Already translated into fifteen languages, it won the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize on its original publication in Catalan in 2003. Look for his latest book, Pandora in the Congo, coming in 2008.

Additional information

GOR004131550
9781841956886
1841956880
Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Canongate Books
20060302
240
N/A
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