It was still another to read it and know, from the advance reports of Spanish readers, that Bolaño's true masterpiece was still to come. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īmazon Best of the Month, November 2008: It was one thing to read Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives last year and have your mind thrilled and expanded by a sexy, meandering masterpiece born whole into the English language. 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. 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. San Francisco Chronicle' s 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
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