Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
An elderly Uruguayan woman, long cast as the self-styled “mother of Mexican poets,” delivers a fragmentary, lyrical first-person account of exile, art and political violence as she hides in a university bathroom during the 1968 student repression; through intimate portraits of poets and lovers, surreal digressions, and ritual repetitions, she assembles a personal talisman against forgetting, bearing witness to love, loss and brutality in prose that is mournful, hallucinatory and fiercely defiant.
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- Published
- 1999
- Nationality
- Chilean
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- Original Language
- Spanish
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