2666: A Novel
by Roberto Bolano
Book Summary Information
Author: Roberto BolanoTranslator: Natasha Wimmer
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-11
ISBN: 0374100144
Number of pages: 912
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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- ISBN13: 9780374100148
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Book Reviews of 2666: A Novel
Book Review: Powerful, to say the least.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a big book - in just about every sense. Pretty much 900 pages, now published for the first time in English after the early death of the author who had intended this to be five separate books!
It's not an easy novel to categorize but then, it is five novels each intertwining and coming together at the end - almost literally at the end.
The absorbing feature is that there are some highly curious 'extra' characters, beautifully portrayed and described but seemingly disconnected to the main thrust of the story.
Running through is the chilling and horrifying murder of hundreds of young women by a serial killer. That the killings continue after his incarceration by the Mexican police only serves to lead the author into another storyline which appears once again to be disconnected.
If you have some time to spend, this book is fine. If you don't, you'll find you've misplaced that time and read more than you intended. The book grabs you from the beginning and you find yourself turning over the pages as the author almost paints his ideas into a kaleidoscope of images, some subtle, some brazen but all finely honed to leave the reader wondering where 900 pages went.
I thought I wouldn't like this book. I didn't; I loved it. I hope you will, too.
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