2666: A Novel [Paperback]

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Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.

In the words ofThe Washington Post, With2666, Roberto Bola?o joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel, those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic, summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bola?o has joined the immortals.

ROBERTO BOLA?Owas born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel,The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

A masterpiece...the most electrifying literary event of the year. Lev Grossman, Time

Indeed, Bola?o produced not only a supreme capstone to his own vaulting ambition, but a landmark in what's possible for the novel as a form in our increasingly, and terrifyingly, postnational world. Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review

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