Widely acclaimed, 2666 was composed in the last two years of Roberto Bolano's life. Its throng of unforgettable characters include academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student caring for her widowed mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the desert sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juarez - on the US-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. Audacious, impassioned, and profoundly imaginative, bursting with melancholy and horror. A New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008. 912p. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner.
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