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product_id: 60179348
title: "The Skating Rink"
brand: "roberto bolano"
price: "€ 52.96"
currency: EUR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
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# The Skating Rink

**Brand:** roberto bolano
**Price:** € 52.96
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Skating Rink by roberto bolano
- **How much does it cost?** € 52.96 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

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    Haunting
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2010*

Once again Bolano shows how he could mix genres creating a tale that is truly multi-layered.  This book is written in short chapters by three different male voices.  You have Enric Rosquelles, an official in the town municipality, Remo Moran, an immigrant businesman, and Gaspar Heredia, an immigrant who has outstayed his visa.  Through their voices we find out more about the seaside town of Z on the Costa Brava, and some of the inhabitants.Coming back into the town is the beautiful Nuria Marti, an Olympic figure skater who is suddenly dropped by the team.  In unexpected ways the three men revolve around her in differing degrees.  Enric syphons off funds from the council to build her an ice rink in the former swimming pool of a disused mansion.  But things start to alter when a dead body turns up on the ice rink.  Enric is arrested for murder and embezzling, but is he the murderer?Through a host of bizarre characters we eventually find out all the threads of the story, which takes in obsession, jealousy, corruption, immigration, blackmail, romance and murder.  The whole setting feels slightly surreal, but we do get a feeling what life is like for immigrants and how small seaside towns change through the seasons.As usual with all of Bolano's works you are made to think whilst reading and the story remains with you long afterwards.  If you have never read any of his books before then this probably isn't the best one to start with, although it is very rewarding.  If you are a Bolano fan then you should really have this book in your collection.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Bolano beautiful suspense on a quickly readable format
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2020*

Take with you on the plane (or your tablet) or good as a holiday companion, specially in the coast :). It was more fluid to read than Third Reich, of course not as enjoyable as the Private Detectives. But if you like Bolano buy it. yeah. I wonder what would Bolano said if he was alive today...

### ⭐ 







  
  
    Not for me
  

*by S***9 on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2018*

No real story. I did not enjoy the book. Maybe the point was lost in translation.

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*Last updated: 2026-05-16*