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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. Bolaño 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

© Roberto Bolano 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Critics Review

A masterpiece
Time
Bolaño's most audacious performance . . . It is bold in a way that few works really are
Financial Times
Bolaño'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 Bolaño.
Sunday Times
Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.
Roberto Bolaño: that poete maudit, irreverent and brilliant
Roberto Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time.
For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close.
Author Roberto Bolaño
Narrator John Lee, Armando Duran, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner, G. Valmont Thomas
Duration 39 hours and 16 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529944228
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life
Availability AU, GB, IE

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