num_pages: 192
description: On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the world.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. And then night begins to fall . . .Albert Sanchez-Pinol's Cold Skin is one of the strangest, most unsettling novels you will read this year, a tour de force full of dark resonance and sexual anxiety.
language: English
title: Cold Skin: A Novel
titlecomplete: Cold Skin: A Novel
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Spain, Contemporary, Science Fiction, Spanish Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 7252
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux