‘Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime’So begins Bianca s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her brother brings home. As the four of them plot a fantastical crime, Bianca learns she can drift even lower…Electric and tense with foreboding, A Little Lumpen Novelita – one of the last novellas Roberto Bola o published delivers a fractured fairy tale of taking control of one’s fate.TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER Bola o has proven that literature can do everything The New York Times The man was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time Paul Auster