A Little Lumpen Novelita
Roberto Bolano author Natasha Wimmer translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Oct '24
Should be back in stock very soon
'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
One of the best books of the year–A Little Lumpen Novelita feels as substantial as a book three times as long. This is a glittering gem, as maddening and haunting as you'd expect from Bolano. * Publishers Weekly, (starred review) *
Electrifying. * Time *
As for Bolano, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus. -- Junot Diaz
Bolano has proven that literature can do everything. * The New York Times *
Bolano has joined the immortals. * The Washington Post *
ISBN: 9781784879402
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 10mm
Weight: 99g
128 pages