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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 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.
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Gritty, compelling, profound.
Electrifying.
Bolaño has joined the immortals.
As for Bolaño, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus.--Junot Diaz
Roberto Bolaño was an exemplary literary rebel. To drag fiction toward the unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method with which to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the results were multi-dimensional.--Sarah Kerr
Bolaño has proven that literature can do everything.--Jonathan Lethem
The very highest level of literary achievement.--Colm Tóbín
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A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women.
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0811223353
- ISBN 13 9780811223355
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages128
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