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A Little Lumpen Novelita
- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- Narrator
- Gabra Zackman
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 16 September 2025
- Run Time
- 1 hour 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'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
©2002 Roberto Bolaño, Translation copyright 2014 by Natasha Wimmer (P)2025 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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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)
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Electrifying.
Time
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As for Bolano, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus.
Junot Diaz
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Bolano has proven that literature can do everything.
The New York Times
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Bolano has joined the immortals.
The Washington Post
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The very highest level of literary achievement.
Colm Tóbín
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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
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Gritty, compelling, profound.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Details
- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- Narrator
- Gabra Zackman
- Duration
- 1 hour 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529983388
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Novella (Short Novel), Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'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©2002 Roberto Bolaño, Translation copyright 2014 by Natasha Wimmer (P)2025 Penguin Audio
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