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2666 [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) | ![2666 [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UIbk2JSIL._SL500_.jpg) | Author: Roberto Bolano
Creator: Various Narrators
Publisher: Playaway
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 143327955X
EAN: 9781433279553
ASIN: 143327955X
Publication Date: August 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: It was one thing to read Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives last year and have your mind thrilled and expanded by a sexy, meandering masterpiece born whole into the English language. It was still another to read it and know, from the advance reports of Spanish readers, that Bolaño's true masterpiece was still to come. And here it is: 2666, the 898-page novel he sprinted to finish before his early death in 2003, again showing Bolaño's mesmerizing ability to spin out tale after tale that balance on the edge between happy-go-lucky hilarity and creeping dread. But where the motion of The Savage Detectives is outward, expanding in wider and wider orbit to collect everything about our lonely world, 2666, while every bit as omnivorous, ratchets relentlessly toward a dark center: the hundreds of mostly unsolved murders of women in the desert borderlands of maquiladoras and la migra in northern Mexico. He takes his time getting there--he tells three often charming book-length tales before arriving at the murders--but when he does, in a brutal and quietly strange landscape where neither David Lynch nor Cormac McCarthy's Anton Chigurh would feel out of place, he writes with a horror that is both haunting and deeply humane. --Tom Nissley
Product Description
Uno de los 10 libros del año del
New York Times Book Review
Cuatro académicos tras la pista de un enigmático escritor alemán; un periodista de Nueva York en su primer trabajo en México; un filósofo viudo; un detective de policÃa enamorado de una esquiva mujer âestos son algunos de los personajes arrastrados hasta la ciudad fronteriza de Santa Teresa, donde en la última década han desaparecido cientos de mujeres.
Publicada póstumamente, la última novela de Roberto Bolaño no sólo es su mejor obra y una de las mejores del siglo XXI, sino uno de esos excepcionales libros que trascienden a su autor y a su época para formar parte de la literatura universal.
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 2666 March 7, 2010
Petra Baddorf
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got all the info i needed to purchase this book. But this is definately not your ordinary mystery novel. Recommend it highly.
I am writing about the shipper February 17, 2010
C. lopez
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The package was in time and they took extra care. Thanks guys
P.S.
I did not start reading the book, saving for spring (common park, a blanket and the book what a girl can ask for more? :)
 Tough first place to start January 26, 2010
h.p. ellis (Ohio, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had never read Bolano, but the overwhelming praise and mystique surrounding 2666 had me itching to dive in. Thus, I decided to start with this 900+ page master work. Perhaps a tough place to start...
Here's fair warning: 2666 is sprawling in every sense. There were parts I absolutely loved (the beginning had me completely hooked), but then it began to trudge along. And trudge along. Then right when you're ready for it to pick back up, the novel continues it's oblique path you have to push through. My frustrations were compounded by RB's uber-descriptive, run-on writing style, which has been detailed in other reviews.
I'm suggesting you tackle something else in his body of work first, perhaps The Savage Detectives, to see if you enjoy his style. Otherwise you may feel bogged down like I did, and that's not good when dealing with a 900+ page master work.
Bolano's Labyrinth January 21, 2010
Douglas K. Shaeffer (chicago)
Roberto Bolano's 2666 is a vast and sometimes frustrating labyrinth wherein many characters seem to vanish into their own obscure tangents. As a reader I wanted to keep following them, and when in the midst of all the murder I felt abandoned in a world that made no sense and was endlessly recurring. By the end I felt clearly that Bolano was fully intentional in imparting his world. And it is a very stark representation of this world. How is it possible that these murders continue now almost 20 years. One feels indignant and angry. But looking around it seems we become numb to similar or disimilar cases of murder and corruption, of systemic abuse and indifference around the world. And it's our world. As you wander Bolano's labyrinth you can't get lost in narrative and thereby aesthetically leave yourself behind.
 Total Trash!! January 4, 2010
K. Elaine (San Francisco)
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is one of the worst books I've read in years!!
I totally cannot comprehend what is so intriguing and fascinating about the unending detached accounts and descriptions of hundreds of murders of women. On xx date, the body of xxx was found, mutilated in the dumps. On another date, another body was found. On another date, another body of a mutilated woman was found......and it goes on and on and on and on for hundreds of pages!! What sick psychopath would enjoy this kind of never ending and super boring accounts of murdered women?? This is totally meaningless and irrelevant. How is this relevant to the entire story, if there is a story?
As this was published after the writer's death, I don't believe this is the final version of what should have been published!!
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