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A Little Lumpen Novelita
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  • Published: 3 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529924398
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
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A Little Lumpen Novelita

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Paperback
21 Jan 2025
EBook
3 Oct 2024
Audiobook
16 Sept 2025
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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 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
  • Published: 3 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529924398
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
Categories:

About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño 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 Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.
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Also by Roberto Bolaño

The Savage Detectives
By Night in Chile
The Collected Poems of Roberto Bolaño
Woes of the True Policeman
The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño
Cowboy Graves
Monsieur Pain
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Praise 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)

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

The very highest level of literary achievement.

Colm Tóbín

Roberto Bolano was an exemplary literary rebel. To drag fiction toward the unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method with which to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the results were multi-dimensional.

The New York Review of Books

Electrifying.

Time

Gritty, compelling, profound.

The Philadelphia Inquirer