When Nuria MartÃ, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, 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 their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene...
Rife with political corruption, sex, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink - narrated in turn by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur - is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.
Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His novel, The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
ISBN:
9780330510530
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/08/2011
Category:
Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Imprint:
Picador
Pages:
Stock:
In stock
Price:
$22.99 AUD
2666
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Amulet
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Between Parentheses
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Monsieur Pain
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
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The Insufferable Gaucho
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The Return
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The Romantic Dogs
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Tres
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