"Amulet" ("Amuleto" in Spanish) focuses on the Uruguayan poet Auxilio Lacouture, who also appears in "The Savage Detectives" as a minor character trapped in a bathroom at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City for two weeks while the army storms the school. In this short novel, she runs across a host of Latin American artists and writers, among them Arturo Belano, Bolaño's alter ego. Unlike "The Savage Detectives", "Amulet" stays in Auxilio's first-person voice, while still allowing for the frenetic scattering of personalities Bolaño is so famous for.