2666
Bolano, Roberto
Written in the last years of Roberto Bolano`s life, "2666" was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer`s masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope. At the centre of the book is the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexico-US border. It is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls like a vortex: convicts and academics, an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, `missing` writer. But there is a darker side in the real town of Juarez, on which Santa Teresa is based, girls and women are disappearing at an alarming creeping sense of conspirac-y permeates "2666", from the apocalyptic overtones of its title, to the ways in which Santa Teresa...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44743-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
