Auxilio Lacouture is trapped.For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry.A highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novella, Amulet 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 heartbreaking and lyrical is suffused with the essence of Roberto Bola o s art.TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS’Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history’ The Times Roberto Bola o redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become New Statesman
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