The Skating Rink - Couverture souple

Bolaño, Roberto

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811218686 ISBN 13 : 9780811218689

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50.

The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811218686
• ISBN 13: 9780811218689
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible