The Skating Rink
by Roberto Bolaño
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Author: Roberto BolañoTranslator: Chris Andrews
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-08-28
ISBN: 0811217132
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: New Directions
Summary of The Skating Rink
?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 Martí. 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 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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