"A great, creepy tender read."
Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi
At the edge of the Antarctic Circle a steamship approaches a desolate island. On board is a young man, poised to take up the post of weather observer. But on shore he finds no trace of the man he has been sent to replace, just a
deranged castaway who refuses to speak. For the next twelve months his entire world will consist of a deserted
cabin, trees, rocks, silence and the surrounding sea.
Then night begins to fall . . .
"A thrillingly vivid hallucination . . . it overtook my dreams . . . Sánchez Piñol 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
Autorentext
Albert Sánchez Piñol was born in Barcelona in 1965. He is an anthropologist, non-fiction writer and novelist writing in Catalan and Castilian Spanish. His first novel, Cold Skin, has been translated into thirty-seven languages, won the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize on its original publication in Catalan in 2003 and is being adapted for film. He is also the author of Pandora in the Congo, among other books.
Zusammenfassung
'A troubling, hammering and glorious novel' DAVID MITCHELLOn the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island. 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, 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 . . .