2666 (3-Volume Boxed Set) (First American Edition)

Roberto Bolaño (author); Natasha Wimmer (translator)

ISBN 10: 0374531552 / ISBN 13: 9780374531553

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008

About this Item

First printing of the first American edition, with full number line (issued without jackets), published simultaneously with 3-volume hardcover boxed set. Fine paperbacks, clean and unmarked. Near-fine cardboard slipcase, with some rubbing on spine (as pictured), otherwise fine. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. F3086. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3086

Bibliographic Details

Title: 2666 (3-Volume Boxed Set) (First American ...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

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.