2666

Author(s): Roberto Bolaño (tr from Spanish Natasha Wimmer)

Modern & Contemporary Literature | Fiction in translation

Written in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope. At the centre of the book is the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexico-US border. It is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls like a vortex: convicts and academics, an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' writer. But there is a darker side still.As in the real town of Juarez, on which Santa Teresa is based, girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate. This is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate, visionary writer. Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction 2008.


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Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction 2008.

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives (Picador 2007), received the Heralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times.

General Fields

  • : 9780330447430
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Picador
  • : 0.726
  • : May 2009
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 52mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Roberto Bolaño (tr from Spanish Natasha Wimmer)
  • : Roberto Bolaño (tr from Spanish Natasha Wimmer)
  • : Modern fiction
  • : Modern fiction
  • : 898
  • : 898
  • : good
  • : good
  • : 863.64
  • : 863.64
  • : English
  • : English
  • : Unabridged
  • : Unabridged
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback