2666

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Roberto Bolaño

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Random House Espanol
01 September 2009

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Languages & ESL; Fiction; Spanish - Fiction; Spanish - Languages

"Uno de los 10 libros del año del New York Times Book Review

Cuatro académicos tras

la pista de un enigmático escritor alemán; un periodista de Nueva York en su primer

trabajo en México; un filósofo viudo; un detective de policía enamorado de una esquiva

mujer —estos son algunos de los personajes arrastrados hasta la ciudad fronteriza

de Santa Teresa, donde en la última década han desaparecido cientos de mujeres.

Publicada póstumamente, la última novela de Roberto Bolaño no sólo es su mejor obra

y una de las mejores del siglo XXI, sino uno de esos excepcionales libros que trascienden

a su autor y a su época para formar parte de la literatura universal.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008 San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 Seattle Times Best Books of 2008 New York Magazine Top Ten Books of 2008

Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.

In the words of The Washington Post, ""With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolaño has joined the immortals."""

By: Roberto Bolaño
Imprint: Random House Espanol
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 48mm
Weight: 811g
ISBN: 9780307475954
ISBN 10: 0307475956
Publication Date: 01 September 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for 2666 (Spanish)

Extrana y maravillosa, divertida hasta lo imposible, cargada de melancolia y horror. -- Los Angeles Times El Gabriel Garcia Marquez de nuestro tiempo: un hombre politicamente comprometido, formalmente osado y salvajemente imaginativo.... Bolano se ha convertido en uno de los inmortales. -- The Washington Post Una obra de un poder y complejidad devastadores, una declaracion final digna de un maestro. -- Boston Globe El logro mas audaz de Bolano.... Una obra atrevida como pocas. Da al traste con la frontera entre el afan ludico y la seriedad. -- Financial Times Una obra maestra... el acontecimiento literario mas electrizante del ano. -- Time Una aventura epica, desquiciante y cautivadora... -- The New York Times