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La pell freda

Albert Sánchez Piñol

2002182 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2002
first published
  • 2005Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 182 pages · ENGISBN 9780374182397
  • 2006Canongate · 233 pages · ENGISBN 9781841956886
  • 2007Canongate · ENGISBN 9781841959009
  • 2009Penguin Canada · 233 pages · ENGISBN 9780143170310
  • 2016Canongate Books · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9781782117179
  • 2007Canongate U.S. · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9781841958835
  • 2020Debutxaca · 304 pagesISBN 9788418132315
  • 2017La Campana · 328 pagesISBN 9788416863310

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 on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, instead 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.

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ThemesSurvival
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