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2666

By Roberto Bolaño
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2666, the posthumous masterpiece by Roberto Bolaño, weaves together the lives of academics, convicts, a sportswriter, a mysterious German novelist, and a teenage student with her unstable father. Set against the backdrop of Santa Teresa, a fictional city resembling Juárez on the U.S.-Mexico border, the novel explores the harrowing reality of hundreds of young factory workers who have vanished. Bolaño's final work is acclaimed for its vast scope, complexity, and haunting beauty.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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2666 will appeal to readers who appreciate ambitious literary fiction that probes dark social realities and features complex, intertwining narratives. Fans of international contemporary literature and thought-provoking, multi-layered storytelling will find it especially compelling.

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With "2666," Bolano joins the ambitious overachievers of the 20th-century novel . . . who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand . . . summation of their culture.--"The Washington Post."

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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: TOP TEN

THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780312429218

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Natasha Wimmer

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 43.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 912

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About the Author

ROBERTO BOLAÑO was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

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