A phenomenally unusual three-way murder mystery.
With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano’sThe 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.
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The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.
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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 192 ● ISBN 9780811220590 ● Размер файла 1.8 MB ● Переводчик Chris Andrews ● издатель New Directions ● Страна US ● опубликованный 2011 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 7469706 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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