A Little Lumpen Novelita
  • Published: 21 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781784879402
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99
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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 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: 21 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781784879402
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in 2003 in Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost Latin American novelists of his generation and his work has won him numerous literary prizes.

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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
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