by Roberto Bolaño · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420431581
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Amulet is a novel by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, published in 1999. The story follows Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan exiled in Mexico, as she reflects on her life and the experiences of the generation of Latin American poets of the 1970s. Through her memories and digressions, Bolaño explores themes such as memory, identity, and the search for meaning in a chaotic and oppressive world. The novel is an introspective and poetic journey through the mind of a woman facing the reality of dictatorship and repression in Latin America.
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".
