{"product_id":"2666-paperback","title":"2666 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Bolaño\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNatasha Wimmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM \"ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS\" (JAMES WOOD, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, \u003ci\u003e2666 \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eROBERTO BOLAÑO \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 912\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724507320383,"sku":"9780312429218","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/778dac8a891dd1dd85e159aa164bb3a6.webp?v=1765102904","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/2666-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}