The master novel from the most outstanding voice of Latin American literature of his generation, the Best Book of the Year according to Time, New York Magazine, and Financial Times, and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize (USA).
A legendary novel about a fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexican-American border, where prisoners and academics, an American journalist going mad, and a mysterious reclusive writer intersect.
But this city hides a terrible secret. Women are being murdered here, and the number of victims grows every day. The authorities can do nothing—Santa Teresa is consumed by darkness, and the atmosphere becomes more and more paranoid the farther things go. And the roots of this epidemic of cruelty go back to Europe, to America, and even to the battlefields of World War II.
Five parts, five genres, dozens of characters, a large geographic span of events—all of it is “2666,” a mysterious postmodern puzzle and one of the defining novels of the early twenty-first century.