Amulet

Description: "Originally published in 1999 by Editorial Anagrama, Spain, as Amuleto. English translation originally published in 2006 by New Directions"--Title page verso.

Brief description: Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

Review Quotes:

One of Bolaño's most moving books . . . A tour de force . . . A symbol of a time in which passionate conviction and generosity seemed still possible, in both literature and life."
--Aura Estrada, Boston Review

"A curiously joyful novel that delights in its storytelling even as it struggles with the question of how art might be sustained under conditions resolutely opposed to it."
--Siddhartha Deb, Harper's Magazine

"An enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City."
--Francisco Goldman, author of Monkey Boy

"Intoxicating . . . As romantic in its aesthetic rapture as in its flavour of encircling doom . . . Amulet pays homage to the wild dreams that helped to keep hope alive."
--Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

"[Amulet] reimagines what literature can become."
--Heather McRobie, New Statesman