| Title | : | A Little Lumpen Novelita |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Roberto Bolaño & Natasha Wimmer |
| Release | : | 2016-03-21 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Mysteries & Thrillers, Women Sleuths |
| Size | : | 444181 |
| 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. |
