Amulet [Paperback]

Roberto Bola?os oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century. Lauren Groff, author ofThe Vaster Wilds

[Latin Americas] most vibrant expositor: an acid-tongued, truth-telling, peripatetic genius, who lived all too briefly, wrote in a fever and did not go gentle into that good night. Marie Arana,The Washington Post

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 Citys mad young poets, a fixture in their heady bohemian swirl. On the infamous day in 1968 when the army invades and occupies the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico to quash student protests, Auxilio is alone in the womens bathroom of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, reading the poetry of Pedro Garf?as on the toilet. Trapped yet defiant, she remains there for twelve days, her lifes story, past and future, pouring from her in a great delugeand with it, a story of a lost generation, of literature, and of Latin America. Hallucinatory and prophetic, Roberto Bola?osAmuletis a spellbinding meditation on youth and valor, on violence and exile, on memory and history: a song of hope, and of love.

Roberto Bola?o(19532003) was the author ofThe Savage Detectivesand2666, among many other notable works. Born in Santiago, Chile, he later lived in Mexico City, Paris, and Barcelona. His accolades include the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Premio R?mulo Gallegos. He died at the age of fifty and is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation.

Chris Andrewshas translated books of prose fiction by C?sar Aira, Roberto Bola?o, Liliana Colanzi, and ?gota Krist?f, among others. He is also the author ofHow to Do Things with FormsandThe Oblong PlotlÃ%