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A Little Lumpen Novelita
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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. '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...
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Description
A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.
'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
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781784879402
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Natasha Wimmer
- Translated by Natasha Wimmer
- Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 99g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Roberto Bolano (Author) Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as 'the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation', he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the R mulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition. Natasha Wimmer (Translator) Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolano, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her recent translations include Nona Fernandez's Voyager and lvaro Enrigue's Sudden Death.
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