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2666
Buy Now for $43.99
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Narrated by:
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John Lee
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Armando Duran
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Scott Brick
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Grover Gardner
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G. Valmont Thomas
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By:
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Roberto Bolaño
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex.
Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But, there is a darker side to the town. Girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate.
As a sense of conspiracy grows and an apocalyptic shadow draws closer, the corruption, violence and decadence of twentieth-century history reveals itself in a novel of an astonishing scale and burning intensity.
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER
‘A landmark in what’s possible for the novel. Bolaño has proven it can do anything’ New York Times
‘Wondrous... Unforgettable...will resonate for years to come’ Daily Telegraph
‘As riveting as any top-notch thriller... 2666 achieves something extremely rare in fiction: it provides an all-encompassing view of our world’ Sunday Times
I didn't know what to expect, so I came at 2666 with an open mind.
The book summary is misleading and overstated. The book is long, but not vast in terms of story telling or plotting, being largely limited to a small cast of self absorbed characters. An odd structure, with serious and all too real issues thrown into one section, surrounded by sections that are, by contrast, almost trivial. It doesn't hang together. It's like reading three unrelated books and trying to get them each to make sense as a single work.
While I appreciate the achievement, for me, neither the writing nor the content was memorable. This isn't a book I would read more than once, or add to my top 100, or enthusiastically recommend to anyone.
Not brilliant
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