Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review"Bolaño's reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent." -- Larry Rohter - The New York Times
"The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world." -- Susan Sontag - Times Literary Supplement
"He is by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time." -- Ilan Stavans - Los Angeles Times
"Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own." -- Francisco Goldman - The New York Times Magazine
