Amuleto
by Roberto Bolaño
Locked in a bathroom while history happened.
you want to understand the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre through someone who survived it by accident
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In 1968 the Mexican army occupied the National Autonomous University and Auxilio Lacouture hid in a bathroom for thirteen days. Bolaño tells her story — a Uruguayan woman in Mexico City, mother of all the young poets, witness to the student movement's destruction — in a single long monologue that moves between the past and a future she can already see coming. The most intimate dispatch from inside Mexico's buried trauma. Ninety pages. Unforgettable.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- Beautiful Wreckage
