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A complex book, The Skating Rink's short chapters are skillfully broken off with questions to maintain the narrative tension: Who was murdered? Who was the murderer? Will the murderer be caught? All of these questions are answered, and yet The Skating Rink is not fundamentally a crime novel, or not exclusively; it's also about political corruption, sex, the experience of immigration, and frustrated passion. And it's an atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, its drifters, its businessmen, bureaucrats and social workers.

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A highly engaging novel of lyricism, menace and beauty.--James Yeh

One of the strangest mysteries...with its dark-summer heat that all but comes off the page.--Marilis Hornidge

A stunning work of fiction. It is infused with a gritty poeticism and a unique worldview.--Don Sjoerdsma

...this Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition.--Emma Hagestadt

The latest release in the series of highly masterful and literary translations by Chris Andrews.... Deserves to be read widely.--Rosemary Aud Franklin

Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolaño's aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch.--Todd Shy

Darkly funny, but also tender and complex in the tenor of classic Bolaño novels.--Savannah ("Savvy") Jones

Passion, mystery, seedy bars, and Bolaño's Olympian irony are here, as always.

When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again....How he makes one laugh! The laughter of someone who just escaped being buried live, and suddenly remembers how badly she wants to live.--Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love

The Skating Rink...like much of what [Bolano] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland.--Anthony Cummins

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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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  • PublisherNew Directions
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0811217132
  • ISBN 13 9780811217132
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages208

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. He is by far the most exciting writer to come from South of the Rio Grande in a long time. -Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink oscillates between two poles: a camp ground and a ruined mansion, the Palacio Benvingut. The story, told by three male narrators, revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Mart? When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly builds a skating rink in the ruined Palacio Benvingut, using public funds. But Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and the skating rink becomes a crime scene. A mysterious pair of women, an ex-opera singer and a taciturn girl often armed with a knife, turn up as well.A complex book, The Skating Rinks short chapters are skillfully broken off with questions to maintain the narrative tension: Who was murdered? Who was the murderer? Will the murderer be caught? All of these questions are answered, and yet The Skating Rink is not fundamentally a crime novel, or not exclusively; its also about political corruption, sex, the experience of immigration, and frustrated passion. And its an atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, its drifters, its businessmen, bureaucrats and social workers. 1.189. Seller Inventory # SONG0811217132

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