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The
2007 Award
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Cold Skin by Albert Sánchez Pinol
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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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. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Albert Sánchez-Pinol is an anthropologist. Cold Skin has been translated into fifteen languages. |
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