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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño'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 Santa Teresa a fictional Juárez on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.]]> 72039 4.00 9020 2351 723942 4.20 1164 428 2006 0 2008-12-09T13:58:23-08:00 162609 4 2008-12-09T13:58:23-08:00 0 0 false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 13:58:03 -0800 2008 Wed May 20 03:58:27 -0700 2009