Amb la força de la narrativa dels grans novel·listes clàssics l'autor s'emporta el lector a la frontera entre veritat i mentida, crueltat i tendresa, ironia i èpica. 4a edició.
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 at the end of the...
It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which both his masters have died, and all of the party's African porters have fled. With...