2666

The Resource 2666
Label
2666
Statement of responsibility
Roberto Bolaño ; [translation by Natasha Wimmer]
Title variation
Two thousand six hundred sixty six
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Contributor
Narrator
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Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Summary
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 strangeness, beauty, and scope. The epic's subject matter ranges from the heady heights of literature and love to the gritty realism of violence and death. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes an enigmatic Prussian novelist who vanishes from the public eye; a group of literary critics who share a passion for the novelist's works; an African-American journalist sent to Mexico on a sports beat after his mother's death; and a Chilean professor whose mind is slowly losing its grip on reality. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa, a fictional Juárez on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the serial killings of hundreds of young working class women remain unsolved
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Awards note
Winner, 2008 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Fiction.
Cataloging source
PLAYA
Dewey number
863/.64
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
LC call number
PQ8098.12.O38
LC item number
A12213 2009d
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Music parts
not applicable
PerformerNote
Read by John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, Scott Brick and Grover Gardner
Target audience
adult
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
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