On 2009-07-10 Dallas Fawson, Salt Lake City, Utah wrote: Amulet, a continuation of a character from the Savage Detectives, has a very misleading plot description. It talks about the main character being trapped in the bathroom during a siege (in a sadly overlooked event) on a Mexican school. However, that only makes up a small portion of the novel. Most of the novel involves her traveling the dangerous streets of Mexico with various people, many of which appear in the Savage Detectives.
This is a very beautifully written novel, with fully realized atmosphere and tight focus on the plot. You really feel for the characters and the situations they´re in, and the last few pages are some of the most beautifully written in all of literature. Highly recommended.. And summed up by saying Not his best novel, but his most accessible and a good starting place.. Currently Amulet has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Chris Andrews claimed A 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. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño´s acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the ´Mother of Mexican Poetry,´ hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She´s tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolaño´s fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the ´70s, and the last words of the novel are: ´And that song is our amulet.´ .
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