A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolaño

A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolaño

'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 longThis 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 *

Roberto Bolaño (Author)
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.

Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her recent translations include Nona Fernández’s Voyager and Álvaro Enrigue’s Sudden Death.

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ISBN 13	9781784879402
ISBN 10	1784879401
Title	A Little Lumpen Novelita
Author	Roberto Bolaño
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2024-10-03
Number of pages	128
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