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Bolaņo, Roberto The Skating Rink ISBN 13: 9780330523059

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Synopsis

Rife with political corruption, sex, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink is a darkly atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona. The story revolves around the beautiful figure-skating champion Nuria Marti. When she 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 town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds; but such a betrayal is only the beginning and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene . . . Told in short suspenseful chapters by three alternating male narrators - a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered, yet still romantic, itinerant poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur - The Skating Rink is a wholly engrossing tale of murder and its motives.

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Review

'Roberto Bolano's novels are tales of the unexpected. Whether the scale is epic, as in his posthumously published masterpiece 2666, or intimate, as in this novel, he offers a unique, multilayered and quirky perspective on contemporary life.' --Daily Mail

`A fascinating insight into this extraordinary writer's creative process... The typical Bolaņo influences are all here - Perec and Calvino, Kafka and Borges - but already there is the uniquely arresting voice that we find in the later novels, as well as the densely suggestive imagery and titillating genre-leaping. With its cast of vagabonds and exiles, its interwoven narrative voices and revelation of the currents of violence that run through society, The Skating Rink contains much of what makes late Bolaņo great.' --New Statesman

'Elegant, elusive and amusing, this novel is more than capable of standing alongside the rest of Bolaņo's work, and both long-time fans and author's writing and those coming to it fresh will find much move.' --Daily Telegraph

'A sizzling cocktail of sex, death and obsession set on the Costa Brava.' --The Times

'The Skating Rink is gripping, easy to read, sometimes funny and extraordinarily romantic... High Praise.' --Independent on Sunday

Book Description

A spellbinding, sui generis 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 date2010
  • ISBN 10 0330523058
  • ISBN 13 9780330523059
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages192

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