La Pell Freda

The last book I have time to read was “La Pell Freda” write by Albert Sanchez Piñol. 

Lately, I don’t have much time to spend in things like read. I hope this summer I could have a little more. 

                       

Anyway, La Pell Freda is a book I read as a part of the lecture club from my school. (I think I have talk about it before). Of the book we have read this year La Pell Freda is what I liked most. I think this is because this is not “youth literature” and it is more complete. The true is this book is one of my most enjoyable of all I have read out of school. 

The main character of the novel is from Ireland, he is an orphan and he fight for the independence of his country. While he was still lower he had the lucky to meet a “teacher” who teaches him a lot of things for the life. 

When Ireland became independent there was a civil war and everybody who had fought for the same cause then became enemies. The protagonist decides to go away and he accepts a job in a remote island in the Pacific as an official atmospheric. He has to replace the last official but when they arrived at the island he meets in the lighthouse with someone who seems a little insane and out of place. Anyway, the protagonist settles down in the house of the official atmospheric. 

But the first day in the island he discovers he is not alone. There are a kind of monsters that came from the sea who want to eat him. After trying to survive for some days, he notices that the only way to continue alive is sheltered in the lighthouse. Then is when he meets with Battí Caffo who doesn’t want to share the lighthouse. Finally, he manages to convince Battís Caffo. 

Since this point of the book, the tow partners of the island must coexist with each other and fight against the monster every night. They both are tow persons with very different characters, ways to think and have very different reason to be in the island. But they both also only have the same goal: to survive. 

There are a lot of different themes that the novel talks about in the novel. The coexistence, the empathy, the fight of power and the fight for your lands, the equality… and more. 

I also really like La Pell Freda because of how is the novel write. How the author describes the places, the monsters or the thinking’s or character from the tow characters. There are a lot of sentences and paragraphs that I read twice because I like. 

So I recommend this book and although you don’t like the kind of themes that there are at the background of the novel you can enjoy only the story because it keeps you in tension all the time and the monster will make “suffer” you and may get a little scared.