Fiction: Reading for Fun

"2666" offers a multi-layered narrative that encompasses various storylines, characters, and settings, including the fictional city of Santa Teresa (loosely based on Ciudad Juárez, Mexico), Europe, and other locations. The novel explores complex topics such as violence, history, literature, and the human condition, while addressing issues of unsolved crimes and the mysteries of life and death.

It’s the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco’s dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel’s country estate in the small town of Mágina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel’s, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana.

A gripping techno-thriller that follows a computer hacker named Wyatt Gillette, who is coerced by law enforcement to help catch a vicious cyber-killer.

Meursault, an emotionally detached Algerian Frenchman who becomes embroiled in a senseless murder on an Algerian beach.