Amulet - Softcover

Bola�o, Roberto

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ISBN 10: 0330511831 ISBN 13: 9780330511834

Publisher: Picador, 2009

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It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the floor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of Mexico City-inventing and reinventing freely-and along the way she creates a cosmology of literature. As they grow ever more hallucinatory, her "memories" become mythologies before completely transforming into riveting dark prophecies. Hair-raising and enthralling, Amulet is a heart-breaking novel and another brilliant example of the art of Roberto Bolano, 'the most admired novelist,' as Susan Sontag noted, 'in the Spanish-speaking world.'

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Review

Roberto Bola�o redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become. (New Statesman)

A short, original, engaged and engaging novel; a good introduction to the longer works of this writer. (Times Literary Supplement)

Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history . . . spare but beautifully compacted. (The Times)

His work is the crossroads where M�rquez meets Burroughs and Borges meets Mailer, resulting in a riotous dust-up. (John Banville Guardia)

A curtain-raising taster to the epic of his landmark works. (Boyd Tonkin Independent)