A Little Lumpen Novelita
Mystery & Suspense, Women Sleuths, Fiction & Literature, Literary, Thrillers
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño | ISBN: | 9780811223362 |
| Publisher: | New Directions | Publication: | March 21, 2016 |
| Imprint: | New Directions | Language: | English |
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño |
| ISBN: | 9780811223362 |
| Publisher: | New Directions |
| Publication: | March 21, 2016 |
| Imprint: | New Directions |
| Language: | English |
Published in Spain just before Bolano’s death, A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a fierce and tender love of women
“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.
Published in Spain just before Bolano’s death, A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a fierce and tender love of women
“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.
