New Directions is releasing Roberto Bolaño’s The Skating Rink in paperback! I have been a very big fan of Bolaño for a while now, and I would say that The Skating Rink is probably one of my favorites among his shorter novels, if not my favorite (it’s neck and neck w/ Nazi Literatures).
Given that Bolaño said he would have been a homicide detective if he hadn’t been a writer, this whodunnit (sorta) fits nicely within Bolaño’s oeuvre: traces of interests found in The Savage Detectives and 2666 can be found in this early, short novel.
Here’s a cool review by Scott Esposito of The Quartely Conversation that I think summarizes my feelings on the book nicely. More Bolaño to come from ND in 2011!
—Sebastian Castillo
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