A Little Lumpen Novelita

<b>'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime'</b><br> <br> 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...<br> <br> Electric and tense with foreboding, <i>A Little Lumpen Novelita</i> - one of the last novellas Roberto Bolano published - delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.<br> <br> TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER<br> <br> <b>'</b><b>Bolano has proven that literature can do everything' <i>The New York Times</i></b><br> <br> <b>'The man was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time' Paul Auster</b>