A Little Lumpen Novelita

Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer

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Vintage Classics
21 January 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano'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 Bolano published - delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.

TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

'Bolano 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

By: Roberto Bolaño
Translated by: Natasha Wimmer
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 99g
ISBN: 9781784879402
ISBN 10: 1784879401
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 21 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.

Reviews for A Little Lumpen Novelita

One of the best books of the year–A Little Lumpen Novelita feels as substantial as a book three times as long. This is a glittering gem, as maddening and haunting as you'd expect from Bolano. * Publishers Weekly, (starred review) * Electrifying. * Time * As for Bolano, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus. -- Junot Diaz Bolano has proven that literature can do everything. * The New York Times * Bolano has joined the immortals. * The Washington Post *