A Little Lumpen Novelita

By Roberto Bolaño

Book Overview

"Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime" so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita.

Orphaned overnight as a teenager--"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"--she drops out of school and gets a crappy job. At night, she is plagued by a terrible brightness, and soon she drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can fall even lower...

Electric and tense with foreboding, with its jagged, propulsive short chapters beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, A Little Lumpen Novelita--one of the last novels Roberto Bolano published--delivers a surprising, fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811223353
• ISBN13: 9780811223355
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"