''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 earthBut 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 . . .

Format Häftad Omfång 240 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Canongate Books Utgivningsdatum 2016-10-20 ISBN 9781782117179