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A Little Lumpen Novelita
Author: Roberto Bolao
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Unabridged: 1 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/13/2018
Category: Fiction - Literary
Synopsis
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 teenagerour parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without usshe drops out of school and gets a crappy job. At night, she is plagued by a terrible brightness, and soon she 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 fall even lower.Electric and tense with foreboding, with its jagged, propulsive short chapters beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, A Little Lumpen Novelitaone of the last novels Roberto Bolao publisheddelivers a surprising, fractured fairy tale of taking control of ones fate.