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Amulet
A Literary Fiction Novel by Roberto Bolaño
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Mexico City,
- Bohemian
This book is for you if you're into...
- Bohemian Mexico City poetry scenes with a surreal edge
- Stories where memory and history blur into visionary monologue
An enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City.
Auxilio Lacouture is the mother of Mexican poetry. Uruguayan by birth, Mexican by destiny, the vagrant poetess serves as guardian, confidant, literary mentor, and occasional lover to a generation of Mexico City's mad young poets, a fixture in their heady bohemian swirl.
On the infamous day in 1968 when the military invades the campus of the city's main university, Auxilio is in the women's bathroom of the department of literature and philosophy, reading the poetry of Pedro Garfias on the toilet. Trapped and alone, she hides there for twelve days, her life's story, past and future, pouring from her in a great deluge.
Hallucinatory and prophetic, Roberto Bolaño's Amulet is a haunting, spellbinding meditation on violence and exile, on memory and history—a requiem for a lost generation.
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