2666: A Novel


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
14
Narrator
6
Release Date
May 2009
Duration
39 hours 16 minutes
Summary
Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his most brilliant achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strange beauty, daring experimentation, and epic scope. The book’s subject matter ranges from the heady heights of literature and love to the gritty realism of violence and death as it explores how humans make sense of senseless events. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, writers and cops, pursuing their own separate yet interrelated quests for meaning: an enigmatic Prussian novelist who disappears from the public eye after the death of his lover; a group of literary critics who bond through their shared love of the novelist’s works; an African American journalist sent to Mexico on a sports beat in the wake of his mother’s death; and a Spanish professor and widowed father whose mind is beginning to lose its grip on reality. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa, a fictional Juárez on the US-Mexico border, where the serial killings of hundreds of young working class women remain unsolved.
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Anonymous

The narrator capture the characters perfectly, with no flaws!

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Steven Rowe

2666 is quite a long book, but it's worth the time. The narrator is awesome and helps to keep you intrigued. I continue to love listening to my audio books and really enuoyu this app. Steve R

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