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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
November 2008
On Sale: November 11, 2008
912 pages ISBN: 0374100144 EAN: 9780374100148 Hardcover
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THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM βONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERSβ (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto BolaΓ±oβs life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresaβa fictional JuΓ‘rezβon the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
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