Cold Skin

Download or read book Cold Skin written by Albert Sánchez Piñol and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.