The Skating Rink: 1193 (New Directions Paperbook) - Tapa blanda

Bolaño, Roberto

 
9780811218689: The Skating Rink: 1193 (New Directions Paperbook)
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ISBN 10: 0811218686 ISBN 13: 9780811218689
Editorial: New Directions, 2011

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca de los autores

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.

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Editorial
New Directions
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0811218686
ISBN 13 
9780811218689
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
192
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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