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2666 / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.

By:

Bolaño, Roberto ,1953-2003

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2008.Edition: 1st American editionDescription: 3 v. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780374100148

Other title:

Two thousand six hundred sixty six

Uniform titles:

2666 . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC BOL

LOC classification:

PQ8098.12.O38 A12213 2008

Summary: Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaños 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 SantaTeresa a fictional Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		057187

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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaños 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 SantaTeresa a fictional Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

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