Amulet
"Auxilio Lacouture becomes famous as the sole person who resists the army's 1968 invasion of the university. She hides in a ladies' room for twelve days. As she waits the occupiers out, famished, Auxilio recalls her life, her lost teeth, her beloved friends and poets, but she is soon in strange landsacpes: in ice-bound moutains, in seedy bars in "the dark night of the soul of Mexico city," in a terrifying chasm, and in the bathroom where moonlight shines, moving slowly from tile to tile."--P. […
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- Full title :Amulet / Roberto Bolano ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
Summary
"Auxilio Lacouture becomes famous as the sole person who resists the army's 1968 invasion of the university. She hides in a ladies' room for twelve days. As she waits the occupiers out, famished, Auxilio recalls her life, her lost teeth, her beloved friends and poets, but she is soon in strange landsacpes: in ice-bound moutains, in seedy bars in "the dark night of the soul of Mexico city," in a terrifying chasm, and in the bathroom where moonlight shines, moving slowly from tile to tile."--P. [4] of cover.
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- Publication Date:2008, ©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New Directions
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008, ©2006.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: 2006.
Translation of: Amuleto.
The Physical Object
- Description:184 pages ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780811217460, 0811217469
- oclc:ocn319954119
- LC Classification:PQ8098.12.O38
- Dewey Decimal:863/.64
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