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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

2666 by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. And this is probably why, out of all the 'books' in 2666, I liked Book II best. It wasn't as if I had been dying to read it. A few weeks ago I said that I was considering doing the group read of Robert Bolano's novel 2666. The book is huge, almost 1,000 pages. Perhaps the only writer of international inter. He was still working on it when he died in 2003. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. When I read it, I will be completely absorbed by it. I think it's worth the commitment of time and attention, and I haven't read any reviews from any of my friends. Perhaps the first online group read of the novel was the "National Reading '2666' Month", a month-long reading by The New Yorker (The Book Bench) in January 2009. I'm about 600 pages into Roberto Bolaño's 2666 –a book that is both horrible and hypnotic, one of the few Bolaño works I've been able to finish (Amuleto was the other one). 2666 is the literary testament of the Latin-American writer--as he called himself--Roberto Bolaño. What more is there to say about 2666? Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is an obsessive and world-shifting epic. 10:28 am - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2666 is a massive novel, and it's translated from Spanish. Part of my four-day holiday weekend has been spent thinking about Roberto Bolaño's 2666.