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The Skating Rink

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The Skating Rink

By: Roberto Bolano
Narrated by: Emilio Delgado, David Crommett, Tony Chiroldes
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A phenomenally unusual three-way murder mystery. With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano’s The 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 Mart. 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.

©1996 The Heirs of Roberto Bolano, Translation copyright 2009 by Chris Andrews (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Political Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Heartfelt
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