The Skating Rink

Name: The Skating Rink
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Roberto Bolano
ISBN: 9780811218689

Roberto Bolano

28/02/2011
New Directions Publishing Corporation

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Skating Rink par Roberto Bolano

Résumé

With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolaño's The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolaño, 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.