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Desolation Island
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas at Chile’s southern tip. On board is Oliver Griffin, who is fascinated by the island and spends his life drawing intricate maps of it. He is on an unusual quest, inspired by a photograph of his grandparents embracing a strange automaton that now lives in the Punta Arenas museum.This fearsome metal warrior is a sixteenth-century robot from a proposed mechanical army, commissioned to guard the straight against the English. It was discovered on the island by a grieving woman scouring the archipelago for the bodies of her shipwrecked husband and son, and is now the curious axis around which countless stories spin, surrounded by the terrible yet mesmerizing sea…
Additional information
| Weight | 0.277 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Pages | 400 |
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| Year Published | 2012-10-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099516934 |
| About The Author | Adolfo García Ortega was born in 1958 and lives in Madrid and Barcelona. He is a translator, literary critic, journalist and former editorial director of the prestigious Spanish publishing house Seix Barral. His critically acclaimed novels have won many prizes. Desolation Island is his first book to be translated into English. |
An adventure story…extravagantly enthralling |
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| Other text | It's a rich, complicated, eccentric gumbo of a book… An epic tale of the restless journeys of the mind |
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