{"product_id":"9780811223355","title":"A Little Lumpen Novelita","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women.“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 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…\u003cbr\u003eElectric and tense with foreboding, with its jagged, propulsive short chapters beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, A Little Lumpen Novelita—one of the last novels Roberto Bolano published—delivers a surprising, fractured fairy tale of taking control of one’s fate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031150903536,"sku":"9780811223355","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811223355_p0.jpg?v=1763747299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811223355","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}