Available for the first time in a single volume trade paperback, 2666 is "a masterpiece… the most electrifying literary event of the year" (Lev Grossman, Time)
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Composed in the last two years of Bolano's life, 2666 has been greeted as his greatest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters include academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, a teenage student caring for her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the desert sprawl of Santa Teresa--a fictional Juarez--on the US-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
Audacious, impassioned and profoundly inspired, 2666 is Roberto Bolano's masterwork.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 912 pages
ISBN-10: 0312429215
Item Weight: 1.5 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.6 x 8.2 inches
"For all the precision and poetry of its language, for all the complexity of its structure, for all the range of styles and genres it acknowledges and encompasses, for all its wicked humor, its inventiveness and sophistication, 2666 seems like the work of a literary genius…" Francine Prose, Harper's Magazine
"As consummate a performance as any 900-page novel dare hope to be…. not only a supreme capstone to his own vaulting ambition, but a landmark in what's possible for the novel as a form..." -Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review
"To call 2666 a thing of nearly unfathomable breadth elides the intimacy of experiencing it; to focus on the relentless, pounding rhythm of its violence does no justice to its shimmering beauty…. A work of devastating power and complexity, a final statement worthy of a master." -Adam Mansbach, Boston Globe
"Strange and marvelous and impossibly funny, bursting with melancholy and horror." -Ben Ehrenreich, Los Angeles Times
"Bolano has joined the immortals." -Steven Moore, The Washington Post
Roberto Bolano 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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