A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: TOP TEN THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa--a fictional Juárez--on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
Sobre o autor(a)
Bolano, Roberto
ROBERTO BOLAÑO nasceu em 1953, em Santiago do Chile, e é considerado um dos grandes nomes da literatura mundial. Passou a adolescência no México e voltou ao seu país pouco antes do golpe que depôs Salvador Allende. Em 1977, instalou-se na Espanha, onde começou sua carreira literária. Do autor, a Companhia das Letras publicou Os detetives selvagens, 2666, Estrela distante, A literatura nazista na América, entre outros. Morreu de insuficiência hepática, na cidade de Barcelona, em 2003. |