The 10 Best Books of 2008
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By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30. Bolaño, the prodigious Chilean writer who died at age 50 in 2003, has posthumously risen, like a figure in one of his own splendid...
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By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30. Bolaño, the prodigious Chilean writer who died at age 50 in 2003, has posthumously risen, like a figure in one of his own splendid creations, to the summit of modern fiction. This latest work, first published in Spanish in 2004, is a mega- and meta-detective novel with strong hints of apocalyptic foreboding. It contains five separate narratives, each pursuing a different story with a cast of beguiling characters European literary scholars, an African-American journalist and more whose lives converge in a Mexican border town where hundreds of young women have been brutally murdered. (Excerpt)
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By Jhumpa Lahiri. Alfred A. Knopf, $25. There is much cultural news in these precisely observed studies of modern-day Bengali-Americans many of them Ivy-league strivers ensconced in prosperous suburbs who cant quite overcome...
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