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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. July 22, 2009 @ 10:27 pm · Filed under Recipes · Tags:books; fictional cooking; veggies. 2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie. Published a year after his death and translated into English a few more years later, it is an enormous book that defies summary. No, I didn't buy 2,666 Brussels sprouts. 2666 is Roberto Bolano's master statement. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. At 900 pages, it groans with ambition, knitting together five different novellas in a sprawling story spanning decades, continents and styles. What I did was read a book with 2,666 pages. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. Every book that isn't a masterpiece is cannon fodder, a slogging foot soldier, a piece to be sacrificed, since in multiple ways it mimics the design of the masterpiece. Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives took the literary world by storm, and his latest posthumous release, 2666, is five times as long and ten times as ambitious. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d.