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2666

Roberto Bolano, Natasha Wimmer

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2666 is the epic novel that defined one of Latin America's greatest writers and Roberto Bolano's unique vision of the twentieth century.

Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 has been hailed across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate visionary.Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But there is a darker side to the town. As in the real town of Juarez, on which Santa Teresa is based, girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate . . . As 2666 progresses, as the sense of conspiracy grows, as the shadow of the apocalypse draws closer, Santa Teresa becomes an emblem of the corruption, violence and decadence of twentieth-century European history.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
912
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
ISBN:
9780330447430
Published Date:
4/9/2009
Dimensions:
196mm x 133mm x 63mm
Weight:
632g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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RRP: £14.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780330447430

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