Amulet *****UNC PROOF***
Bolano, Roberto
From BRITOBOOKS, Isle of man, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 04 January 2007
From BRITOBOOKS, Isle of man, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 04 January 2007
About this Item
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
Bibliographic Details
Title: Amulet *****UNC PROOF***
Publisher: Picador, London
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Edition: First 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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