A Little Lumpen Novelita (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811223355)

"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.

Author: Roberto Bola
ISBN-10: 0811223353
ISBN-13: 9780811223355
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2014
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2014
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014 pg. 84
Booklist 09/01/2014 pg. 45
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 44
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2014 pg. 28