2666 (Signed First Edition)

Roberto Bolano (author); Natasha Wimmer (translator)

ISBN 10: 0374100144 / ISBN 13: 9780374100148

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

About this Item

FSG, New York, 2008. First edition. First printing, with full number line. A very fine (new) copy in a very fine (new) jacket. A pristine unread copy with price ($30.00) intact on front flap, opened only for translator to sign. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. SIGNED by translator Natasha Wimmer on title page (name only). Translated from the Spanish. Wimmer won the PEN Translation Prize in 2009. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1561

Bibliographic Details

Title: 2666 (Signed First Edition)

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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.