2666

Resumen del libro

Published for the first time in the UK, this is the epic novel that defined one of Latin America's greatest writers, and his unique vision of the twentieth century

Santa Teresa, on the Mexico US border, is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls. Among them are three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; and a police detective in love with an elusive older woman. But there is darker side still to the town. It is an emblem of corruption, violence and decadence, and one from which, over the course of a decade, hundreds of women have mysteriously, often brutally, disappeared.


Told in five parts, 2666 is the epic novel that defines one of Latin America's greatest writers and his unique vision of the modern world. Conceived on an astonishing scale, and in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life with burning, visionary commitment, it has been greeted across Europe and Latin America as his masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in inventiveness, imagination, beauty and scope.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Roberto Bolañox{0026}lt;/B (1953-2003), narrador y poeta chileno, es autor de libros de cuentos (x{0026}lt;I Llamadas telefónicas, Putas asesinas, El gaucho insufrible, Diario de barx{0026}lt;/I -en colaboración con A. G. Porta- y x{0026}lt;I Cuentos completosx{0026}lt;/I ), novelas (x{0026}lt;I Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joycex{0026}lt;/I -en colaboración con A. G. Porta-, x{0026}lt;I Monsieur Pain, La pista de hielo, La literatura nazi en América, Estrella distante, Los detectives salvajes, Amuleto, Nocturno de Chile, Amberes, Una novelita lumpen, 2666, El Tercer Reich, Los sinsabores del verdadero policíax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El espíritu de la ciencia-ficciónx{0026}lt;/I ), x{0026}lt;I nouvelles x{0026}lt;/I (x{0026}lt;I Sepulcros de vaquerosx{0026}lt;/I ), poesía (x{0026}lt;I Reinventar el amor, La Universidad Desconocida, Los perros románticos, El último salvaje, Tresx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Poesía reunidax{0026}lt;/I ) y libros de no ficción (x{0026}lt;I A la intemperiex{0026}lt;/I ).x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Está considerado una de las figuras más importantes de la literatura contemporánea en español. Fue galardonado, entre otros, con los premios Rómulo Gallegos, Salambó, Altazor, National Book Critics Circle Award y Ciudad de Barcelona.x{0026}lt;/P