by Roberto Bolaño · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420423920
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«2666» is the posthumous novel by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, published by Alfaguara in paperback (1240 pages, in Spanish).
Four literary critics travel to Santa Teresa, a Mexican border city, on the trail of the missing writer Benno von Archimboldi. In that city they cross paths with the Chilean professor Amalfitano and the journalist Oscar Fate, while the unsolved murders of women keep occurring. Literature, violence and search intertwine.
Posthumous novel, originally published in 2004 and structured in five parts. In this Alfaguara edition, Hispánica collection, paperback with flaps.
For readers aged 16 and over interested in contemporary literary fiction.
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".
