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Albert Sánchez Piñol
"A great, creepy tender read."Yann Martel, author of Life of PiAt the edge of the Antarctic Circle a steamship approaches a desolate island. On board is a young man, poised to take up the post of weather observer. But on shore he finds no trace of the man he has been sent to replace, just aderanged castaway who refuses to speak. For the next twelve months his entire world will consist of a desertedcabin, trees, rocks, silence and the surrounding sea.Then night begins to fall . . ."A thrillingly vivid hallucination . . . it overtook my dreams . . . Sánchez Piñol creates a struggle for survival that is, at the same time, a meditation on humanity. An island story, following a long line through Robinson Crusoe right up to The Beach."The Times"Superbly controlled and creepy." INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY"Remarkable . . . an addictive and unsettling read." ALAN WARNER"A brilliantly suspenseful debut novel." SPECTATOR
Fremdsprachige eBooks
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Englisch
240
2006-02-03
9781847676207
978-1-84767-620-7
