While Bolaño was writing 2666, he was already sick and on the waiting list for a liver transplant. 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, time periods, and stories within stories. In addition to Santa Teresa, settings and themes include the Eastern Front in World War II, the academic world, mental illness, journalism, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. The novel revolves around an elusive German author and the unsolved and ongoing murders of women in Santa Teresa, a violent city inspired by Ciudad Juárez and its epidemic of female homicides. They praised the book's multiple story lines and scope.

Critics have compared it to the work of W. Wimmer's translation was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award. The New York Times Book Review included it in the list of '10 Best Books of 2008' Time named it Best Fiction Book of 2008 and the novel won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In Chile, it won the Altazor Award in 2005. It is a fragmentary novel.Ĭritical reception of the novel has been positive. An English-language translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in the United States in 2008, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the United Kingdom in 2009, by Picador. It is over 1100 pages long in Spanish, and almost 900 in its English translation. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. 2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño.

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