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Cold Skin Author: Albert Sanchez Pinol

ISBN: 9781782117179 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Published: 23 November 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 Description: This creepy, paranoid and thrilling novel has become an international bestseller and cult classic.

'A troubling, hammering and glorious novel' - David Mitchell

On 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 . . .

About the Author

Albert Sanchez 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...

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