by Roberto Bolaño · Pan MacMillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330510493
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«Amulet» is the novel by Roberto Bolaño published by Pan Macmillan in 2010 in paperback, in English.
Auxilio Lacouture hides for twelve days in a university lavatory and from there weaves a first-person, semi-hallucinatory account in which she proclaims herself Mother of Mexican poetry. The monologue, peopled with poets, dark prophecies and artists devoured by youth, turns the confinement into a lyrical journey through Mexican literature.
The work was originally published as «Amuleto» (1999); this English edition, translated by Chris Andrews, came out in 2010.
For readers wanting a brief first approach to Bolaño's narrative before «2666».
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages".
