2666

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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. 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. Girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate. As a sense of conspiracy grows and an apocalyptic shadow draws closer, the corruption, violence and decadence of twentieth-century history reveals itself in a novel of an astonishing scale and burning intensity. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 'A landmark in what's possible for the novel. Bolano has proven it can do anything' New York Times 'Wondrous... Unforgettable...will resonate for years to come' Daily Telegraph 'As riveting as any top-notch thriller... 2666 achieves something extremely rare in fiction- it provides an all-encompassing view of our world' Sunday Times

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A masterpiece * Time *
Bolao's most audacious performance . . . It is bold in a way that few works really are * Financial Times *
Bolao's masterwork . . . An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force * The New York Review of Books *
Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolao. * Sunday Times *
Roberto Bolao's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.

Author Bio

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.