false 41453541 8503 3115359 0374100144 9780374100148 285 <![CDATA[2666]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255598110m/3115359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255598110s/3115359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3115359.2666 4.21 692 The New York Times Book Review).

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 8927 2340 723942 4.20 1150 425 2006 0 0 false Wed Dec 31 17:21:24 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 17:21:28 -0800 2008