2666, Part 3 by Roberto Bolaño
In a bleak industrial border city, dozens of women are found murdered or missing over years, and the narrative follows the slow, often bungled investigations, forensic procedures, and the daily life around maquiladoras that form the setting for these crimes; through a cataloging of victims, police reports, witness accounts and local gossip it exposes institutional indifference, corruption, and the normalization of violence, producing a forensic, mournful portrait of a community marked by unresolved loss and the relentless presence of brutality.
- Published
- 2004
- Nationality
- Chilean
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- Spanish
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(3.0)
- Alternate Titles
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- La parte de Fate
- The Part About Fate
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