Boulder - International Booker Prize 2023 Shortlist

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.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Baltasar
• Assisted by: Julia Sanches (Translation), Sanches Julia (Translation)
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781913505387
• ISBN: 978-1-913505-38-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general