Available for the first time in a single volume trade paperback, 2666 is "a masterpiece… the most electrifying literary event of the year" (Lev Grossman, Time)New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2008San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008Seattle Times Best Books of 2008New York Magazine Top Ten Books of 2008 Composed in the last two years of Bolano's life, 2666 has been greeted as his greatest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters include academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, a teenage student caring for her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the desert sprawl of Santa Teresa--a fictional Juarez--on the US-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. Audacious, impassioned and profoundly inspired, 2666 is Roberto Bolano's masterwork.