Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex.

Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But, there is a darker side to the town. Girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate.

As a sense of conspiracy grows and an apocalyptic shadow draws closer, the corruption, violence and decadence of twentieth-century history reveals itself in a novel of an astonishing scale and burning intensity.

TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

‘A landmark in what’s possible for the novel. Bolaño has proven it can do anything’ New York Times

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‘As riveting as any top-notch thriller... 2666 achieves something extremely rare in fiction: it provides an all-encompassing view of our world’ Sunday Times

"A masterpiece" - Time

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"Bolaño's masterwork . . . An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force" - The New York Review of Books

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