2666 By Roberto Bolano
Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
8vo. pp. 898. hardcover. dw. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
ISBN-10: .374100144 / ISBN-13: 9780374100148
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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.
Published posthumously, 2666 is, in the words of La Vanguardia, "not just the greatest Spanish-language novel of this decade, but one of the cornerstones that define an entire literature."