The Skating Rink (La Pista de Hielo in Spanish) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño.

[1] Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told by three male narrators (one Mexican, one Chilean, and one Spaniard), revolving around a beautiful figure-skating champion, Nuria Martí.

When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly builds a skating rink in a local ruin of a mansion, using public funds.

Of the novella itself, Mason said that, much like his other works, "The imperative to present the sources of such emotion remains a central feature in Bolaño’s expanding shelf of astonishing fictions, the wellsprings of incomprehensible feeling that hide in even the most abject fool.

"[4] Kevin Canfield, in SFGate, said: "Bolaño's Rashomonesque novel is narrated by three very different men living in a fictional shoreline town near Barcelona ... As in any good crime story, there is a fair amount of foreshadowing (the outline of a knife visible through some clothing, the increasing mental instability of one important character).