by Roberto Bolaño · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466337076
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In 'Amuleto', Roberto Bolaño introduces us to Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan resident in Mexico City who proclaims herself 'mother of Mexican poetry'. The story takes a turn on September 18, 1968, when the army takes over the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Auxilio is trapped in the bathrooms of the faculty of philosophy and letters. During thirteen days of confinement, she reflects on her life, her encounters with poets, and her vision of a country with an uncertain future. This intimate and moving novel explores themes of identity, memory, and the impact of history on the lives of its characters.
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".
