Editors' Choice: Recent books of particular interest.

2666, by Roberto Bolano. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30.) The five autonomous sections of this posthumously published novel interlock to form an astonishing whole, a capstone to Bolano's vaulting ambition. FACTORY GIRLS: From Village to City in a Changing China , by Leslie T. Chang. (Spiegel & Grau, $26.) Chang's engrossing account delves deeply into the lives of young migrant workers in southern China. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]