A Little Lumpen Novelita
Author | : Roberto Bolaño |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2024-10-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781529924398 |
ISBN-13 | : 1529924391 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime' So begins Bianca’s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her brother brings home. As the four of them plot a fantastical crime, Bianca learns she can drift even lower... Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the last novellas Roberto Bolaño published – delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER ‘Bolaño has proven that literature can do everything’ The New York Times ‘The man was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time’ Paul Auster