2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer (Translator)

Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Don DeLillo in a novel that pushes the very form to its limits as storylines about art and academia, love, life and death collide.

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER.

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: TOP TEN.

THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, 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 SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.