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In the town of Z, on the Catalan Costa Brava, the strange homicide perpetrated on a clandestine ice rink, erected under a veil of mystery and illegality, clouds the hot days of a summer like any other.«We were all teenagers, and poets, and we used to laugh. Now we are thousand...
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The ice rink
In the town of Z, on the Catalan Costa Brava, the strange homicide perpetrated on a clandestine ice rink, erected under a veil of mystery and illegality, clouds the hot days of a summer like any other. «We were all teenagers, and poets, and we used to laugh. Now we are thousands of kilometers away and the fog is thicker than it was then. From Bucareli Street, in Mexico, to murder!, you will think... The purpose of this story is to try to persuade you otherwise...» In the town of Z, on the Catalan Costa Brava, the strange homicide committed on a clandestine ice rink, created under a veil of mystery and illegality, clouds the hot summer days. Three voices build the narrative of the events: that of Gaspar, a Chilean with aspirations of being a writer; that of Remo, a Mexican, a poet by vocation who spends his nights as a camping guard, and that of Enric, a Catalan politician dazzled by a beautiful and capricious skater. Their testimonies intertwine and try to impose each of their particular truths as the universal truth. But beneath this death runs a dark river that the three narrators, united in tragedy and existential weariness, draw with their stories. There is a much more hopeless crime: the one perpetrated against their own happiness. And this one seems to have no end. Reviews: «A writer who subverted forms and genres to offer a different view of reality. That is why Roberto Bolaño is so modern and his prestige grows with the years.» «The Spanish-language author after the Boom with the most impact on world literature.» «Roberto Bolaño left his mark wherever he went.» «In this novel Bolaño [...] concentrates his particular world, his stark and beautiful poetics.» «Almost all writers believe they are, or want to be, like Roberto Bolaño: innovative and audacious in style, seductive in narration, and capable of being read and reread; in other words, exceptional.» «One of the greatest and most influential contemporary writers.» «He was an experimental writer who invented new forms and was a very independent and very critical voice.» «One of the most respected and influential authors of his generation [...]. At once funny and, in a sense, intensely terrifying.» «Bolaño has proven that literature can do anything.» |
Editorial: DEBOLSILLO Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 200 Empastado: Tapa Blanda Idioma: Español |
