2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño

Author:Roberto Bolaño [Bolaño, Roberto]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Literary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780374100148
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

At the end of July some children found the remains of Marisol Camarena, twenty-eight, owner of the nightclub Los Heroes del Norte. Her body had been dropped into a fifty-gallon drum of corrosive acid. Only her hands and feet were still whole. Identification was possible thanks to her silicone implants. Two days before, she had been kidnapped by seventeen men from her apartment above the nightclub. Her maid, Carolina Arancibia, eighteen, managed to escape a presumably similar fate by hiding in the attic with the daughter of the deceased, a tiny two-month-old baby. From up above she heard the men talk, heard laughter, shouts, curses, the sound of several cars starting. The case was handled by Inspector Lino Rivera, who questioned a few regulars at the nightclub, but the seventeen kidnappers and killers were never found.

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From the first to the fifteenth of August there was a heat wave, and two more victims were found. The first was thirteen-year-old Marina Rebolledo. Her body was discovered behind Secondary School 30, in Colonia Felix Gomez, a few yards from the state judicial police building. She was dark, long haired, slightly built, five foot two. She was wearing the same clothes she'd had on at the moment of her disappearance: yellow shorts, white blouse, white socks, and black shoes. The girl had left her house, at 38 Calle Mistula, in Colonia Veracruz, at six in the morning to walk her sister to work at a maquiladora in Arsenio Farrell industrial park, and she never came back. That same day her family filed a missing person report. Two of the girl's male friends, fifteen and sixteen years old, were arrested, but after a week in jail they were both released. On August 15, the body of Angelica Nevares, twenty-three, was found near a sewage ditch west of General Sepulveda industrial park. Angelica Nevares, better known as Jessica, lived in Colonia Plata and was a dancer at the nightclub Mi Casita. She had also worked as a dancer at the nightclub Los Heroes del Norte, whose owner, Marisol Camarena, had been found not long ago in a drum of acid. Angelica Nevares was from Culiacan, in the state of Sinaloa, and she had been living in Santa Teresa for five years. On August 16, the heat broke, and a slightly cooler wind began to blow from the mountains.

On August 17, Perla Beatriz Ochoterena, a twenty-eight-year-old teacher, was found hanged in her room. She was from the town of Morelos, near the Sonora-Chihuahua border. She taught classes at Secondary School 20 and was, according to her friends and acquaintances, a pleasant, easygoing person. She lived in an apartment on Calle Jaguar, two blocks from Avenida Carranza, shared with two other teachers. In her room were many books, especially poetry collections and essays, which she ordered COD from bookstores in Mexico City or Hermosillo. According to her roommates, she was a sensitive and intelligent woman, who had started from almost nothing (the town of Morelos, in Sonora, is

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