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.
- ISBN10 0374182396
- ISBN13 9780374182397
- Publish Date 1 November 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 182
- Language English