Novella Book Club - Amulet by Roberto Bolano

Tickets for the book club meetings are free but places are limited - please reserve yours soon to ensure your space and avoid disappointment. You don't need to have read the books already to attend. We'll also be discussing what books we'd like to read for future meetings.

Auxilio 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 Bolaño’s art.