Amulet
Bolano, Roberto; Andrews, Chris [tr.]
From Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 10 August 1999
From Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 10 August 1999
About this Item
210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 184pp. With dust jacket. Seller Inventory # bol02
Bibliographic Details
Title: Amulet
Publisher: Picador, London
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Magenta hardback cloth cover
Condition: VG : in very good condition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First UK Edition.
About this title
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 Bolaño, 'the most admired novelist,' as Susan Sontag noted, 'in the Spanish-speaking world.'
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