Description: **Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize** The grim and lovely follow-up to Eva Baltasar's acclaimed Permafrost explores the darker sides of love and motherhood for two women determined to live as they like. Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no-and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien. With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her priorities lie, and whether her yearning for freedom can truly trump her yearning for love. Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her preeminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world - and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.
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EAN: 9781913505387
UPC: 9781913505387
ISBN: 9781913505387
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Boulder: Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
Number of Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: AND & Other Stories
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: Romance Languages (Other), Contemporary Women, Literary
Genre: Foreign Language Study, Fiction
Item Weight: 4.6 Oz
Author: Eva Baltasar
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
