Amulet
Roberto Bolano
From beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 19 August 2004
From beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 19 August 2004
About this Item
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. Seller Inventory # 011635
Bibliographic Details
Title: Amulet
Publisher: Picador, London
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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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