The Skating Rink

With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano’s The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolano, who in his last interview, according to The Observer, “declared, in all apparent seriousness, that what he would most like to have been was a homicide detective.”

Set in the seaside town of Z, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told in short, suspenseful chapters by three male narrators, and revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Martí. A ruined mansion, knife-wielding women, political corruption, sex, and jealousy all appear in this atmospheric chronicle of a single summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, businessmen, immigrants, bureaucrats, social workers, and drifters.

Author: Roberto Bolaño
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 02/28/2011
Series: New Directions Paperbook #1193
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.30w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780811218689
Language: English