Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juárez - on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
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"Each of the five books in this tome is a stand-alone masterpiece, yet, as all of them eerily converge on a simultaneously real and mythic Mexican border city, the work as a whole takes on yet greater resonances. Unsolvable crimes, lost poets, mad artists, obsessed academics, frayed love, and haunting longings are the many ghosts that walk through Bolano's evocative fiction." — John (5 out of 5 stars)
"Each of the five books in this tome is a stand-alone masterpiece, yet, as all of them eerily converge on a simultaneously real and mythic Mexican border city, the work as a whole takes on yet greater resonances. Unsolvable crimes, lost poets, mad artists, obsessed academics, frayed love, and haunting longings are the many ghosts that walk through Bolano's evocative fiction."
" There's something for everyone here: mystery, comradery, quest, murder, romance, war, cruelty, love, betrayal, humor. Stories are inter-connected and every character has a story to tell! "
" simply put, one of the masterpieces of the 21st century "
" Mentholates the air. "
" This book was like some exotic vine spiraling out from deep within the earth. "
" This book was much smarter than me. "
" I really tried, I did. I read about 400 pages before giving up. I found this extremely hard to read and pretentious. "
" I really wanted to like this, but I found it pretentious. Wonderful concept, not-wonderful execution. "
" WTF did I just read. "
" "So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end." "
" The writing is beautiful, the story seems without a purpose... "
" Brilliant. Bolano writes with prose with a poet's sensibilities: Vivid and surreal, he tells his oblique, interlocking stories with an eye toward darkly resonant imagery. "
" Although this is a Spanish edition, I read it in English. Thought it was overrated. Althouhg the section on the Mexican drug murders was good. "
" The first 100 pages of part five were difficult/boring, but the last 15-20 pages of the book made the whole thing worth it. "
" I have no idea what this book was about... "
" A vast sprawling novel evoking Bolano's typical themes. Fascinating but seemingly unfinished. "
" Marvelous ! "
" One of the best books I've ever read. The writing is amazing. "
" I am not nearly intellectual enough to get through this. "
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