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Synopsis
Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolaño Sunday Times
When Nuria Martí, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn t tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene . . .
Rife with political corruption, sex, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink narrated in turn by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.
Bolaño writes with such elegance, verve and style and is immensely readable Guardian
His fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental Times Literary Supplement
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'Narrated by a civil servant, a romantic poet and a local entrepreneur, this Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition.' --Independent
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A spellbinding, unique detective fiction focusing on the swirling vortex of sex, death, and intrigue surrounding a beautiful Spanish figure skating champion.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0330510533
- ISBN 13 9780330510530
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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