Free A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolaño

Rome, but in the European night or the space between planets, a noiseless, eyeless storm from another world, a world that not even the satellites in orbit around the Earth could capture, a world where there was a place that was my place, a shadow that was my shadow.

 
    Copyright © 2002 by Roberto Bolaño
    Translation copyright © 2014 by Natasha Wimmer
    Originally published as
Una novelita lumpen
in 2002. Published by arrangement with the Heirs of Roberto Bolaño and the Andrew Wylie Agency, New York.
    All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
    First published as a New Directions Book in 2014.
    The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
    Bolaño, Roberto, 1953–2003.
    [Novelita lumpen. English]
    A little lumpen novelita / Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer
    p. cm.
    ISBN 978-0-8112-2335-5
    ISBN 978-0-8112-2336-2 (e-book)
    1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Life change events—Fiction. 3. Self-actualization
(Psychology) in women—Fiction. 4. Rome (Italy)—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction.
    I. Wimmer, Natasha, translator. II. Title.
    PQ8098.12.O38N6813 2014
    863'.64—dc23                                       2014018071
    New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin
    by New Directions Publishing Corporation
    80 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011

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