A Little Lumpen Novelita

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, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness at night, and 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 drift 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 Bolaño published - delivers a surprising, fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño, BOLANO ROBERTO
• Assisted by: Natasha Wimmer (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781447292913
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-9291-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Picador
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Chilenische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Italy