- queer, Love, fiction
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 pre-eminence 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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Grave, contemporary, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Eva Baltasar
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 137
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Club Editor, CLUB EDITOR 1959, S.L.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Spanish, cat, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9781913505387
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