Each story is an adventure: a fresco at once horrifying, delicate, grotesque, redundant, and absurd, revealed by the flashlight of a child who stands at the threshold of a cave he will never leave., "For all the precision and poetry of its language, for all the complexity of its structure, for all the range of styles and genres it acknowledges and encompasses, for all its wicked humor, its inventiveness and sophistication, 2666 seems like the work of a literary genius."-Francine Prose, Harper's Magazine "As consummate a performance as any 900-page novel dare hope to be. A phone call or a sex act can express real tragedy, the sweep of the vast human condition., The book explores evil with irony, without any theory or resolution, relying on storytelling alone as its saving grace. The narration is pure metonymy: it omits feelings in favor of facts. Bolano writes almost without adjectives, but in his prose this leads to double meanings. May he burn in peace., An absolute masterpiece. With prodigious skill and his inimitable art of digression, Bolano leads us to the gates of his own hell. It is a fully realized work by a pure genius at the height of his powers., Not just the great Spanish-language novel of decade, but one of the cornerstones that define an entire literature., An immense moment for literature. No doubt many readers will find 2666 inexhaustible to interpretation. On every page the reader marvels, hypnotized, at the capacity of this baroque writer to encompass all literary genres in a single fascinating, enigmatic story. In the words of The Washington Post, "With 2666, Roberto Bola o 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.
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.
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