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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.