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Download Amulet, Roberto Bolaðfiâ±O, New Directions Publishing, 2008 Amulet, Roberto BolaГ±o, New Directions Publishing, 2008, 0811220486, 9780811220484, 192 pages. 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 BolaГ±o'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 cafГ©s 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 (BolaГ±o'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.". DOWNLOAD http://kgarch.org/IuTiy2 Distant Star , Roberto BolaГ±o, 2004, Fiction, 149 pages. The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a .... Monsieur Pain , Roberto BolaГ±o, 2010, Fiction, 134 pages. After he accepts a bribe not to treat chronically hiccupping Peruvian poet CГ©sar Vallejo, mesmerist Monsieur Pierre Pain is racked with guilt but is barred from the hospital .... The Secret of Evil , Roberto BolaГ±o, Apr 30, 2012, Fiction, 192 pages. A collection that gathers everything BolaГ±o was working on before his untimely death. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent .... Species of Spaces and Other Pieces , Georges Perec, 1997, Literary Collections, 288 pages. This generous selection of Georges Perec's nonfiction, the first to appear in English, features ingenious contemplations on the ways in which we occupy urban and domestic space .... Amuleto , Roberto BolaГ±o, EDUARDO BRANDAO, 2008, , 131 pages. O episГіdio que desencadeia o fluxo narrativo em Amuleto, baseado em fatos reais, foi extraГ•do de 'Os detetives selvagens', obra de Roberto BolaГ±o. Trata-se da invasГЈo do campus .... The Skating Rink , Roberto BolaГ±o, 2009, Fiction, 182 pages. When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but .... By Night in Chile , Roberto BolaГ±o, Dec 17, 2003, Fiction, 130 pages. In a deathbed confession, Father Urrutia, a Jesual priest and conservative literary critic, shares his memories of his work with agents of Opus Dei and his secret job of .... The Savage Detectives , Roberto BolaГ±o, 2009, Fiction, 591 pages. With a new afterword by Natasha Wimmer вЂSavagely comic yet equally tender . This novel is an elegy for a generation’ Independent New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two .... How I Became a Nun , CГ©sar Aira, 2006, Fiction, 117 pages. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream.. Fence, Volumes 9-10 , Rebecca Wolff, 2006, Language Arts & Disciplines, 188 pages. Amuleto , Roberto BolaГ±o, 1999, Fiction, 154 pages. "La voz arrebatada de Auxilio Lacouture narra, e indaga al tiempo que narra, un crimen atroz y lejano, un crimen que solo se desvelara en las ultimas paginas de la novela.". 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