2666 / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 898 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0374100144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0374531552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780374100148 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780374531553 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 2666. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Bolaño, Roberto | Available | 33111005471624 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolano's 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 SantaTeresa - a fictional Juarez - on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers,in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.