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 him, he carries two huge diamonds. From his prison cell in London, Garvey recounts his horrific and thrilling ordeal. Young Tommy Thomson is assigned to transcribe Garvey’s story and only he can untangle the extraordinary mysteries of the Garvey case.
The Reviews
An African brew with a dash of derring-do. Laced with a heady post-modern investigation into the dark art of telling tales.Christian House, Independent
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368 pages
Price: £8.99
ISBN: 9781847671240 Other editions
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Albert Sánchez Piñol was born in Barcelona in 1965 and is an anthropologist and writer. His writing has appeared in several journals, and Cold Skin is his first novel. Already translated into fifteen languages, it won the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize on its original publication in Catalan in 2003. Look for his latest book, Pandora in the Congo, coming in 2008.
Photo by LM.PALOMAR.
