{"id":1696,"date":"2026-02-19T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/mountaindevil\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:03:45","slug":"a-little-lumpen-novelita-roberto-bolano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"A Little Lumpen Novelita &#8211; Roberto Bola\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recommend: Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first Bolano. A brother and sister are orphaned and are running out of resources and hope. They struggle to forge a new path for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A small terse novella that is beautifully written. It has a small ensemble of strong characters and a narrator whose voice is so clear it leaps from the page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am thrilled to investigate other Bolano&#8217;s in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I bought this from Stephen I went up with a pile of four other Bolano&#8217;s. He sort of tilted his head down in disappointment and asked me to leave some for other people. I shamefully put two back. The collection was donated by a Blackheath Gleebooks regular who gets an obsession for an author and purchases their entire catalogue. I&#8217;ve not met this man but feel a kinship with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Brevity of review due to holiday in SEA]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then a sigh of relief would escape my throat. I would gasp and smile as if I had just risen from deep waters, out of air, oxygen tanks empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews_books","category-recommended_cait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountaindevil.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}