9780330510486 - Amulet by Bolaño, Roberto (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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.'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Magenta hardback cloth cover. Condition: VG : in very good condition. First UK Edition. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 184pp. With dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. Published in the UK three years after the American first printing. Both editions were published posthumousl;y as the author died in 2003. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. A highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First British Edition. Publisher: Picador, London, 2009. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Pristine. As new. Unread.

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.