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 *
A sizzling cocktail of sex, death and obsession set on the Costa Brava. * The Times *
Elegant, elusive and amusing * Daily Telegraph *
Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever.
Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia … and his writing was always unparalleled
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.
‘Latin American letters (wherever it may reside) has never had a greater, more disturbing avenging angel than Bolaño.

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation,’ he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.

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