Cold Skin

Albert Sánchez Piñol, a Spanish anthropologist, bursts onto the literary scene with this short, brutal first novel. A survivor of World War I arrives on a subantarctic island to man a weather station and escape from his past. The only other inhabitant, the lighthouse keeper, won't speak to him, and that night he is attacked by relentless amphibious monsters. The protagonist's desperate situation explores disturbing questions about the dehumanization of war. -- János

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