A Little Lumpen Novelita

One of the best books of the year–A Little Lumpen Novelita feels as substantial as a book three times as long. This is a glittering gem, as maddening and haunting as you’d expect from Bolano. * Publishers Weekly, (starred review) *Electrifying. * Time *As for Bolano, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus. – Junot DiazBolano has proven that literature can do everything. * The New York Times *Bolano has joined the immortals. * The Washington Post *The very highest level of literary achievement. – Colm TóbínRoberto Bolano was an exemplary literary rebel. To drag fiction toward the unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method with which to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the results were multi-dimensional. * The New York Review of Books *Gritty, compelling, profound. * The Philadelphia Inquirer *

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.

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