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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.

Editions · 5

Paperback
2007 · Canongate
EN
9781841959009
Paperback
2007 · Canongate U.S.
240 pp · EN
9781841958835
Ebook
2009 · Canongate Books
EN
9781847676207
Paperback
2009 · Penguin Canada
233 pp · EN
9780143170310
Paperback
2016 · Canongate Books
240 pp · EN
tr. Cheryl Leah Morgan
9781782117179

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