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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. First American Edition. First Printing, hardcover issue. Octavo (23.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in metallic red on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [xiv],[2],3-898pp. Signed by the translator, Natasha Wimmer, on the title page. Gentle sunning to spine ends and board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $30.00), with some sunning to spine, and a faint mark on verso; Near Fine. Bolaño's posthumously published novel, divided into five interconnected sections, in which characters are drawn for varying reasons to the fictional Mexican city of Santa Teresa: "a group of academics obsessed with an obscure novelist, a doddering philosophy professor, a lovelorn police officer and an American reporter investigating the serial murders of women in a case with echoes of the real-life feminicide that has plagued Ciudad Juárez, Mexico" ("The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century," The New York Times). 85622.