Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, "2666" has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate visionary. 'The best book of 2008 ...A masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year' - "Time". 'Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano'- "Sunday Times". 'Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world' - "Guardian".

2666 has become an international sensation, captivating and astonishing readers around the globe. Revolving around the border town of Santa Teresa, a vortex for lost souls and the scene of some of the most horrifying crimes in twentieth-century fiction, it defines one of Latin America's greatest writers and his visionary commitment to narrating the world as he saw it, in terrifying, awe-inspiring, irreducible beauty and despair.

A Nole from Author's Heirs

1. THE PART ABOUT THE CRITICS

2. THE PART ABOUT AMALFITANO

3. THE PART ABOUT FATE

4. THE PART ABOUT THE CRIMES

5, THE PART ABOUT ARCHIMBOLDI

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