Roberto Bolaño
2666: A Novel.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. First printing of the first US edition. Translation by Natasha Wimmer. 9780374100148  897 pages.
Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped red lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"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 Santa Teresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared."