A Little Lumpen Novelita
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
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9781784879402
- Number of pages: 128
- Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 10 mm
- Weight: 99g
- Languages: English, Spanish (Original language of a translated text)


















