"Among BolaƱo's most intoxicating works. Obsessive and ambiguous . . . It further cements him as a master of the form, of any form."-Juan Vidal, NPR"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. 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, and drifts into bad company. Her younger 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 how low she can fall.Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita - the last novel Roberto BolaƱo published in his lifetime - delivers a surprising, fractured tale of taking control of one's fate.
