2666 by Roberto Bolaño

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

A vast literary reckoning with disappearance, obsession and the violence threaded through modern history.

Set in Santa Teresa on the Mexico US border, this literary crime novel about missing women unfolds across intersecting lives: European academics in pursuit of a reclusive writer, a journalist drawn into the city’s unrest, and a community haunted by a growing list of unsolved murders.

What begins as an intellectual quest gradually reveals a deeper and more disturbing pattern. The killings of girls and women recur with numbing regularity, their investigation fragmented and inconclusive. Around them, careers advance, rivalries flare and history presses forward. The search for meaning becomes inseparable from the search for the dead.

Shifting between continents and decades, the novel resists easy answers. Its scope is immense, yet its power lies in accumulation: detail by detail, case by case, it exposes the quiet machinery that allows brutality to persist.

A masterpiece * Time *
Bolaño's most audacious performance. . It is bold in a way that few works really are * Financial Times *
Bolaño's masterwork . . . An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force * The New York Review of Books *
Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolaño. * Sunday Times *
Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.

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ISBN 13	9781784879396
Title	2666
Author	Roberto Bolaño
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2024-09-05
Number of pages	912
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