Descripción
One of the Best Books of the 21st Century according to the New York Times One of the 10 books of the year by the New York Times Book Review
Four academics on the trail of an enigmatic German writer; a New York journalist on his first assignment in Mexico; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive woman—these are some of the characters drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have disappeared in the last decade.
Published posthumously, Roberto Bolaño's last novel is not only his best work and one of the best of the 21st century, but one of those exceptional books that transcend their author and their time to become part of universal literature. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008 San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 Seattle Times Best Books of 2008 New York Magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared. In the words of The Washington Post, "With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolaño has joined the immortals."
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 1136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 2.30d
ISBN13: 9780307475954
ISBN10: 0307475956
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Crime
Four academics on the trail of an enigmatic German writer; a New York journalist on his first assignment in Mexico; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive woman—these are some of the characters drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have disappeared in the last decade.
Published posthumously, Roberto Bolaño's last novel is not only his best work and one of the best of the 21st century, but one of those exceptional books that transcend their author and their time to become part of universal literature. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008 San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 Seattle Times Best Books of 2008 New York Magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared. In the words of The Washington Post, "With 2666, Roberto Bolaño joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolaño has joined the immortals."
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 1136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 2.30d
ISBN13: 9780307475954
ISBN10: 0307475956
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Crime
About the Author
Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953. Pasó gran parte de su vida en México y en España, donde murió a la edad de cincuenta años. Es autor de numerosas obras de ficción, no ficción y poesía. Su libro Los detectives salvajes ganó el Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela y fue uno de los Mejores Libros del 2007 para The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times y The New York Times Book Review. En 2008, recibió póstumamente el Premio de Ficción del National Book Critics Circle por 2666.