2666

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his most brilliant achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strange beauty, daring experimentation, and epic scope. The book’s subject matter ranges from the heady heights of literature and love to the gritty realism of violence and death as it explores how humans make sense of senseless events. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, writers and cops, pursuing their own separate yet interrelated quests for meaning: an enigmatic Prussian novelist who disappears from the public eye after the death of his lover; a group of literary critics who bond through their shared love of the novelist’s works; an African American journalist sent to Mexico on a sports beat in the wake of his mother’s death; and a Spanish professor and widowed father whose mind is beginning to lose its grip on reality. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa, a fictional Juárez on the US-Mexico border, where the serial killings of hundreds of young working class women remain unsolved. Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. An Oprah Irresistible Read. A 2008 Los Angeles Times Best Book for Fiction. A 2008 New York Magazine Top 10 Books for Fiction. A New York Times bestseller. Selected for the December 2008 Indie Next List. A 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book for Fiction. A 2008 Seattle Times Best Book for Fiction. A 2008 New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year. A 2008 Time Magazine Top 10 Book for Fiction. One of the 2008 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction. A Publishers Weekly Pick of 5 Essential Mind-Bending Novels.