![]() ![]() Or, rather, I was obsessed by it but ultimately frustrated by it. ![]() ![]() I didn’t like it (my original review is here). Trevor: Maybe this was silly or maybe it all worked perfectly in the end, but 2666 was my first Bolaño. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juarez - on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. 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. ![]() We’ll need some time to read this! At the bottom of this post you’ll see our reading schedule, which we plan to have go on from now until late November.Ĭomposed 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. It’s a big book, divided into five seemingly disparate parts, with most editions clocking in at around 900 pages. It’s a book both of us have read but that we are rather desperate to reread - with help! The book that we couldn’t shake, that we want to talk about? Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, which was translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer and hit English readers in late 2008. Trevor and Lee here, excited to announce the first read-along for The Mookse and the Gripes. ![]()
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