AMULET

The “mother of mexican poetry” Auxilio Lacouture hides out for twelve days in a campus bathroom during the Tlatelolco massacre, in which the Mexican military attacked students protestors in 1968, killing forty and arresting thousands. Alone and without food, Auxilio writes poems on the toilet paper, hallucinates, and thinks about what good poetry does when all your friends are being shot.

First Sentence:
"This is going to be a horror story."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/12/amulet-bolano-banville-review
[The Guardian review by John Banville]

http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2007_03_010777.php
[BOOKSLUT REVIEW]