{"product_id":"9781784879419","title":"Amulet","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuxilio Lacouture is trapped.   For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry.   A highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novella, Amulet is a potent stream of consciousness through which the poets of Mexico rage and swirl. Filled with wild, dark literary prophecies, heroic poets, mad poets, artists `choked by the brilliance of youth', Auxilio's passionate narration - both heartbreaking and lyrical - is suffused with the essence of Roberto Bola�o's art.   TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS'Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history' The Times`Roberto Bola�o redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become' New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54819698966904,"sku":"9781784879419","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781784879419.jpg?v=1732211898","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781784879419","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}