by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews
This novella/short novel takes an incident from Bolaño's brilliant 'The Savage Detectives' and weaves a new tale from it. The incident in question concerns the narrator, Auxilio Lacouture, and the Mexican regime's violent repression of student protest in the turbulent year that was 1968. Auxilio ref...
Amulet at only 184 pages long, packs an intensity that will have you turning the pages & coming up to breathe, only when it's absolutely necessary, but for all that passion, it's the melancholy that haunts. Like "Last Evenings on Earth" it's quieter & although the prose in places is quite hallucinog...