A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books)."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Book Description Magenta hardback cloth cover. Condition: VG : in very good condition. First UK Edition. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 184pp. With dust jacket. Seller Inventory # bol02
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in unread, FINE condition. `Amulet is a short, original, engaged and engaging novel; a good introduction to the longer works of this writer. Roberto Bolaño's prose, which moves between the colloquial, abrupt and deliberately awkward, and the lyrical, cannot be easy to translate. Chris Andrew has done it beautifully' --Times Literary Supplement. Seller Inventory # 003430