- Romance literature, Crimes against, Figure skaters, City and town life
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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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 194
- Publisher
- Alfaguara, Anagrama, Seix Barral
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780330510523
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Santiago, 28 de abril de 1953-Barcelona, 15 de julio de 2003) fue un escritor y poeta chileno, autor de más de dos decenas de libros, entre los cuales destacan sus novelas *Los detectives salvajes,* ganadora del Premio Herralde en 1998 y el Premio Rómulo Gallegos en 1999, y la póstuma *2666.* ---------- Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Santiago, April 28, 1953 – Barcelona, July 15, 2003) was a Chilean writer and poet, author of more than twenty books, among which his novels *Los detectives salvajes,* winner of the Herralde Prize in 1998 and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1999, and the posthumous *2666* stand out.
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