2666
by Roberto Bolaño
Eight hundred pages on what the world ignores.
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Five books in one. Critics chasing a reclusive German author. A philosopher in his final years. A journalist covering boxing. And then the central section — three hundred pages of murdered women in a fictional Ciudad Juárez, each death documented with the flat precision of a police report. Bolaño forces you to read every name. He refuses to let you look away. The most morally serious novel of the 21st century.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Chile • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Chilean author
- Topics
- ciudad juárez femicides
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