In 1937, four young men travel to Spitsbergen where they plan to overwinter in a remote bay for scientific purposes. Through unfortunate circumstances and unforeseeable events, one of them is left there on his own, in the endless night of an Arctic winter, in a place the locals call haunted, with only a few dogs and his own thoughts as companions. What makes this book is the atmosphere. Paver manages to bring the Arctic wasteland to life by describing everything in a vivid and evocative […]