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Cold Skin (Canons)
Albert Sánchez Piñol
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Description for Cold Skin (Canons)
Paperback. This creepy, paranoid and thrilling novel has become an international bestseller and cult classic Translator(s): Morgan, Cheryl Leah. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
'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, ... Read more
'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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782117179
SKU
V9781782117179
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About Albert Sánchez Piñol
Albert Sanchez Pinol 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Cold Skin (Canons)
A troubling, hammering and glorious novel
DAVID MITCHELL Thrillingly vivid . . . Sanchez Pinol creates a struggle for survival that is, at the same time, a meditation on humanity
The Times
Beguiling . . . Pinol's dark tale lingers long after the shivers running down the spine have ceased
... Read more
DAVID MITCHELL Thrillingly vivid . . . Sanchez Pinol creates a struggle for survival that is, at the same time, a meditation on humanity
The Times
Beguiling . . . Pinol's dark tale lingers long after the shivers running down the spine have ceased
... Read more