The Skating Rink - Hardcover

A highly engaging novel of lyricism, menace and beauty.--James Yeh

One of the strangest mysteries...with its dark-summer heat that all but comes off the page.--Marilis Hornidge

A stunning work of fiction. It is infused with a gritty poeticism and a unique worldview.--Don Sjoerdsma

...this Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition.--Emma Hagestadt

The latest release in the series of highly masterful and literary translations by Chris Andrews.... Deserves to be read widely.--Rosemary Aud Franklin

Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolaño's aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch.--Todd Shy

Darkly funny, but also tender and complex in the tenor of classic Bolaño novels.--Savannah ("Savvy") Jones

Passion, mystery, seedy bars, and Bolaño's Olympian irony are here, as always.

When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again....How he makes one laugh! The laughter of someone who just escaped being buried live, and suddenly remembers how badly she wants to live.--Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love

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

When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly uses public funds to build a skating rink in a local ruin of a mansion in a seaside town of Spain, but Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and soon the rink becomes a crime scene.