Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime: so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness at night, and drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower Electric, tense with foreboding, and written in jagged, propulsive short chapters, A Little Lumpen Novelita one of the first novels Roberto Bolano ever published delivers a surprising, fractured tale of taking control of one s fate."
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