The Skating Rink
First edition (Spanish)
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| Author | Roberto Bolaño |
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| Original title | La Pista de Hielo |
| Translator | Chris Andrews |
| Country | Chile |
| Language | Spanish |
| Publisher | Alcala de Henares (Spanish) New Directions (English) |
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Publication date
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1993 |
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Published in English
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2009 |
| Media type | Print (Cloth) |
| Pages | 198 |
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The Skating Rink (La Pista de Hielo in Spanish) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. A translation from the Spanish by Chris Andrews was published by New Directions in August, 2009.
Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told by three male narrators, revolving 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 a local ruin of a mansion, using public funds. But Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and the skating rink becomes a crime scene.
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