The Skating Rink
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780811217
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 181
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Crime,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Spain,
Fiction
My first Bolaño and certainly not the last. Unfortunately for Bolaño, my reading of The Skating Rink came on the tail end of reading a few exceptional works in a row. Thus, The Skating Rink only receives three stars. The story itself was interesting, albeit none too exceptional. Where he scores high...
This book had me puzzled, it reminded me of another book, and at first I thought it was Lawrence Durrell’s “ The Alexandria Quartet” which as a tetralogy offers us four perspectives via four novels on the same series of events. But that wasn’t it. It was then I realised that it was a tale I’d read ...
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