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Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.
A Book of the Year: The Skating Rink leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image. * Times Literary Supplement * The Skating Rink…like much of what [Bolano] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland. * The Observer * …this Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition. * The Independent * This short, exquisite novel is another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far…Bolano in The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing. * The New York Times Book Review * 'The Skating Rink is gripping, easy to read, sometimes funny and extraordinarily romantic... High Praise' * Independent on Sunday *
