Cold Skin

Name: Cold Skin
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781782117179
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By Albert Sánchez Piñol

Series: Canons

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Set just after World War One, Cold Skin follows a young man journeying to a remote island on the edge of the Antarctic Circle to take up a solitary post as a weather observer. Upon arrival, he finds only a deranged castaway haunted by an unnamed horror. Surrounded by woods, a deserted cabin, rocks, and the vast sea, he must confront not only the elements but a creeping darkness that falls with the night.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric, suspenseful fiction with psychological and existential themes, fans of literary horror, and those attracted to isolated survival stories with dark, thought-provoking undertones.

This creepy, paranoid and thrilling novel has become an international bestseller and cult classic.

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'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 . . .

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David Mitchell describes it as 'a troubling, hammering and glorious novel.' The Times praises its thrilling vividness and meditation on humanity, while The Scotsman finds the dark tale beguiling and lingering long after reading. Financial Times calls it a 'creepily compelling debut,' and The Independent on Sunday notes its superb control and comparison to Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness with a pulp-horror twist. Other acclaim highlights its originality and suspenseful narrative.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782117179

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 October 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Canons

Edition: Main - Canons Edition

Contributors:

Translated by Cheryl Leah Morgan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 179g

Pages: 240

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Albert Sánchez Piñol Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Canons

About the Author

Albert S.nchez Pi.ol 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 of Pandora in the Congo, among other books.