The Skating Rink
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879532
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99
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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work – now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.

Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge.

Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn’t tell her is he paid for it using public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene.

Narrated by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous civil servant, The Skating Rink is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.

TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS

'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York Times

‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879532
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in 2003 in Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost Latin American novelists of his generation and his work has won him numerous literary prizes.

Also by Roberto Bolaño

By Night in Chile
2666
Monsieur Pain
The Insufferable Gaucho
The Third Reich
The Return
Woes of the True Policeman
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Praise for The Skating Rink

The Skating Rink…like much of what [Bolano] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland.

The Observer

This Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition.

The Independent

[A] short, exquisite novel

The New York Times Book Review

Elegant, elusive and amusing

Daily Telegraph

A sizzling cocktail of sex, death and obsession set on the Costa Brava.

The Times

Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever.

Chris Power

Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled

Mariana Enríquez

Roberto Bolaño offers a unique, multilayered and quirky perspective on contemporary life.

Daily Mail

One of the most respected and influential writers of his generation... At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening.

John Banville

‘Latin American letters (wherever it may reside) has never had a greater, more disturbing avenging angel than Bolaño.

Junot Díaz
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