2666 - 3-Volume Boxed Set A Novel

by Bolaño, Roberto; Wimmer, Natasha

• ISBN13: 9780374531553
• ISBN10: 0374531552
• Edition: Boxed
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-11
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

This posthumous masterwork from "one of the greatest and most influential modern writers" ("New York Times Book Review") features a throng of unforgettable characters whose lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Author Biography

ROBERTO BOLAÑO was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. NATASHA WIMMER ’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by The Washington Post and The New York Times.

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“Bolaño’s masterwork . . . An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force (though the phrase seems hardly adequate to describe the novel’s narrative velocity, polyphonic range, inventiveness, and bravery) based in part on the still unsolved murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, in the Sonora desert near the Texas border.” —FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, The New York Review of Books

 

“Not just the great Spanish-language novel of [this] decade, but one of the cornerstones that define an entire literature.” —J. A. MASOLIVER RÓDENAS, La Vanguardia

 

“One of those strange, exquisite, and astonishing experiences that literature offers us only once in a very long time . . . to see . . . a writer in full pursuit of the Total Novel, one that not only completes his life’s work but redefines it and raises it to new dizzying heights.” —RODRIGO FRESÁN, El País