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2666

  • 1032 pages · about 17 hours
  • First published 2004
  • 62 editions

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1 About this book

2666 is the final novel by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. It was released posthumously in 2004, a year following his death. It is over 1100 pages long in the original Spanish. It is divided into five parts. An English-language translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in the United States in 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Picador. It is a fragmentary novel.

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Good for readers who want: a thriller, a mystery, and a long read.

  • Crimes against
  • Thrillers
  • Mexico
  • Serial murders
  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • Women
  • Missing persons

2 About Roberto Bolaño

1953–2003

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish: ; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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