Review
"This debut novel is a kind of Robinson Crusoe seen through dark glass. Engrossing. For a novel that is as much a parable as it is a thriller, its impact is surprisingly emotional." KIRKUS REVIEW"
Kirkus Review
"This debut novel is a kind of Robinson Crusoe seen through dark glass.."
Product Description
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 when he lands 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. His entire world for the next year is a deserted cabin, woods, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. Then night begins to fall..."Cold Skin" is a fabulous dark gem of a book that defies categorisation. In equal parts thriller, science fiction and historical fiction, it's a B-movie cum - literary - masterpiece that will haunt you beyond the final pages.
About the Author
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.
