by Roberto Bolaño · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466337120
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Published posthumously, Roberto Bolaño's '2666' is a masterful novel acclaimed internationally. The plot intertwines the lives of four European literary critics obsessed with a missing German author, leading them to the dangerous border city of Santa Teresa, Mexico, inspired by Ciudad Juárez. There, they cross paths with a Chilean professor and an American journalist, as the novel delves into a series of brutal murders of women. With a sweeping narrative, Bolaño explores themes of violence, history, and the search for reality, solidifying '2666' as a pinnacle of contemporary literature in Spanish.
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages".
