In 2008, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and has been adapted into stage plays three times in 20, with performances in Barcelona, Chicago, and Paris. It won Chile’s Altazor Award in 2005, and was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. 2666 was highly acclaimed for its complex narrative and well-plotted mystery. The book explores themes of mental illness, despair, misogyny, crime, and the degeneration of society in the 20th century. The narrative was heavily inspired by the city of Ciudad Juarez and its epidemic of unsolved murders. Centering around a reclusive German author and his role in investigating the ongoing unsolved murders in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, Mexico, it jumps around in location, narrative style, location, and characters over its five section. 2666 is a novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, published in 2004, one year after its author’s death and released in the United States in an English-language translation in 2006.
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