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De ijsbaan by Roberto Bolaño
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De ijsbaan (edition 2011)

by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews (Translator)

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When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime scene.
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Title:De ijsbaan
Authors:Roberto Bolaño
Other authors:Chris Andrews (Translator)
Info:New Directions (2011), Editie: Reprint, Paperback, 192 pagina's
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Tags:Spanje, verlangen, relaties

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The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño

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The three narrators are what make this book interesting. Three narrative perspectives, the interests and worldviews of which Bolaño had to keep track. Thinking of it this way makes me see the book as a small feat.
I will not spoil the ending, but I will say that the revelation of the crime holds a randomness that strikes me as accurate, accurate to a certain kind of violence, as if it had bubbled out of an unrelated desperation, a pervasive, underlying desperation within which violence appears at random.
I got a bit tired of and bothered by the underdeveloped character of Nuria, but what do we see of Bolaño’s female characters—that they are physically “beautiful” and that’s about it. ( )
  decadesearlier | Aug 2, 2023 |
Another great turn for Bolaño. The three narrators take a few chapters to get the hang of, but once it's moving, it moves very quickly. ( )
  CLPowers | Dec 6, 2019 |
3.5 A good, not exceptional, short Bolaño novel. Big ups for being a murder-mystery! Worth it for the signature multi-voiced narrators and emotional range, though not the scope or depth he has shown elsewhere. ( )
  Eoin | Jun 3, 2019 |
Costa Brava noir rife with corruption and a homicidal miasma as refracted through three fragmented POVs which overlap and occlude with a masterful touch. ( )
  jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |
Anche gli antipatici soffrono per amore. Già questo basterebbe. Ma ciò che conta è la nostalgia di un'attesa che non si è realizzata, che non si realizza in nessuna vita. Il ricordo del momento in cui tutto avrebbe potuto essere non ci risparmia e il nodo alla gola è una emozione dolce e struggente.

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  icaro. | Aug 31, 2017 |
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When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime scene.

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