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''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

A Little Lumpen Novelita

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 10 March 2024
      ISBN-13 9781784879402
      978-1784879402
      ISBN-10 1784879401
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      Contemporary Fiction Roberto Bolano Books by Roberto Bolano

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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

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