A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person,
semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the
melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. It is
September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run
head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico:
hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the
university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for
twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the
floor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of
Mexico City-- inventing and reinventing freely-- and along the way
she creates a cosmology of literature. She is Auxilio Lacouture,
the Mother of Mexican Poetry. Auxilio speaks of her passionate
attachment to young poets as well as to two beloved aged poets, to
a woman who once slept with Che Guevera, and to the painter
Remedios Varo, recalling visits which never occured. And as they
grow ever more hallucinatory, her memories become mythologies
before completely transforming into riveting dark prophecies.
Hair-raising and enthralling, Amuletis a heart-breaking novel and
another brilliant example of the art of Roberto Bolan o, the most
admired novelist, as Susan Sontag noted, in the Spanish-speaking
world.
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