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  • Published: 5 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529944228
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
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3 Dec 2024
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5 Sept 2024
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5 Sept 2024
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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: 5 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529944228
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.
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Also by Roberto Bolaño

The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño
Woes of the True Policeman
The Collected Poems of Roberto Bolaño
Cowboy Graves
A Little Lumpen Novelita
Monsieur Pain
Amulet
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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