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  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879396
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 912
  • RRP: $34.99

2666



A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’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. 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

  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879396
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 912
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in 2003 in Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost Latin American novelists of his generation and his work has won him numerous literary prizes.

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Praise for 2666

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.

Lauren Groff, author of Matrix

Roberto Bolaño: that poete maudit, irreverent and brilliant

Samanta Schweblin, author of Mouthful of Birds

Roberto Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time.

Paul Auster

For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close.

Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf
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