`Roberto Bolano redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become' New Statesman
Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of the university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry.
This highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novel is a potent stream of consciousness through which the poets of Mexico rage and swirl. Filled with wild, dark literary prophecies, heroic poets, mad poets, artists `choked by the brilliance of youth', Auxilio's passionate narration - both heart-breaking and lyrical - is suffused with the essence of Bolano's art.
`We can't recommend this incredible book highly enough . . . Amulet is a light out of darkness' Dazed & Confused
`Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history . . . spare but beautifully compacted' The Times
`His work is the crossroads where Marquez meets Burroughs and Borges meets Mailer, resulting in a riotous dust-up' John Banville, Guardian
`A curtain-raising taster to the epic of his landmark works' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
- ISBN10 0330532863
- ISBN13 9780330532860
- Publish Date 2 January 2014 (first published 8 January 2007)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format eBook
- Language English