A Little Lumpen Novelita

Name: A Little Lumpen Novelita
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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By: Roberto Bolano, Natasha Wimmer (Translator)

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Paperback | 21 March 2016

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128 Pages

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20.96 x 13.97 x 0.64

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"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. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"--she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, and drifts into bad company. Her younger 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 how low she can fall. Electric, tense with foreboding, and written in jagged, propulsive chapters, A Little Lumpen Novelita delivers a surprising, fractured fable of seizing control of one's fate.

Industry Reviews

"A Little Lumpen Novelita, while short, is among Bolano's most intoxicating works. Obsessive and ambiguous, its open-ended nature is reflective not only of the protagonist but of the author himself. And it further cements him as a master of the form, of any form." -- Juan Vidal - NPR "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." -- Gabe Habash - Publishers Weekly "A Little Lumpen Novelita may be Bolano's best trick, and greatest gift, ever." -- Gawker "As for Bolano, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus." -- Junot Diaz

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