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Robert Bolano
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Publisher | Picador | ||
ISBN | 978-033044743 | ||
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Wendy
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Synopsis
Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, "2666" has been greeted across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate visionary. 'The best book of 2008 ...A masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year' - "Time". 'Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano'- "Sunday Times". 'Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world' - "Guardian".
Review
This book is written in five different parts which I found difficult to read especially as I couldn't identify with any of the characters, nor could I understand the point he was trying to make. It was the most depressing book that I have ever read. Perhaps I didn't understand the culture of South America or the philosophy.
Basically the book is about a town in Mexico called Santa Theresa on the borders of America. It is a hell hole, full of poverty, fear and corruption. Over the last five years two hundred women have disappeared or been murdered. That is the theme that connects the five parts!
Why the critics called the book " A novel of stupefying ambition, Bolano's master statement" - The Observer. What statement? Perhaps the statement is in the philosophy! I don't know because I couldn't understand it.
This book is nearly 900 pages long - a great deal of reading! I have come to the conclusion that this book is only for people who can understand the higher intellectual strata of the Mexican culture and philosophy. Its only redeeming fact is that it is translated beautifully.
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