Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666, among many other notable works. Born in Santiago, Chile, he later lived in Mexico City, Paris, and Barcelona. His accolades include the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He died at the age of fifty and is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation.

Chris Andrews has translated books of prose fiction by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño, Liliana Colanzi, and Ágota Kristóf, among others. He is also the author of How to Do Things with Forms and The Oblong Plot.

One of Bolaño's most moving books . . . A tour de force . . . A symbol of a time in which passionate conviction and generosity seemed still possible, in both literature and life."
--Aura Estrada, Boston Review

"A curiously joyful novel that delights in its storytelling even as it struggles with the question of how art might be sustained under conditions resolutely opposed to it."
--Siddhartha Deb, Harper's Magazine

"An enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City."
--Francisco Goldman, author of Monkey Boy

"Intoxicating . . . As romantic in its aesthetic rapture as in its flavour of encircling doom . . . Amulet pays homage to the wild dreams that helped to keep hope alive."
--Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

"[Amulet] reimagines what literature can become."
--Heather McRobie, New Statesman