A Little Lumpen Novelita

'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime'So begins Bianca’s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her brother brings home. As the four of them plot a fantastical crime, Bianca learns she can drift even lower... Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the last novellas Roberto Bolaño published – delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER‘Bolaño has proven that literature can do everything’ The New York Times‘The man was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time’ Paul Auster

''Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime''

So begins Bianca’s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her brother brings home. As the four of them plot a fantastical crime, Bianca learns she can drift even lower...

Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the last novellas Roberto Bolaño published – delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one''s fate.

TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

‘Bolaño has proven that literature can do everything’ The New York Times

‘The man was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time’ Paul Auster

• | Author: Roberto Bolano, Natasha Wimmer
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2024
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781784879402
• | ISBN-10: 1784879401