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2666 : a Novel by Roberto Bolan o, Roberto Bolaño, Various Readers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review 2666 , the 898-page novel he sprinted to finish before his early death in 2003, again showing Bolaño's mesmerizing ability to spin out tale after tale that balance on the edge between happy-go-lucky hilarity and creeping dread. But where the motion of The Savage Detectives is outward, expanding in wider and wider orbit to collect everything about our lonely world, 2666 , while every bit as omnivorous, ratchets relentlessly toward a dark center: the hundreds of mostly unsolved murders of women in the desert borderlands of maquiladoras and la migra in northern Mexico. He takes his time getting there--he tells three often charming book-length tales before arriving at the murders--but when he does, in a brutal and quietly strange landscape where neither David Lynch nor Cormac McCarthy's Anton Chigurh would feel out of place, he writes with a horror that is both haunting and deeply humane. --Tom Nissley From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Last year's The Savage Detectives by the late Chilean-Mexican novelist Bolaño (1953–2003) garnered extraordinary sales and critical plaudits for a complex novel in translation, and quickly became the object of a litera

Who reads 2666 : a Novel?

Author

Roberto Bolan o, Roberto Bolaño, Various Readers

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330424400

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

4.21 / 5 (203 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14