Boulder

Resumen del libro

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.

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, 1978) ha publicado once poemarios y debutó en la novela con x{0026}lt;I Permafrostx{0026}lt;/I , Premi Llibreter 2018 y finalista del Premio Médicis Extranjero en 2020, traducida a varias lenguas y uno de los fenómenos literarios de los últimos tiempos. En 2020 vio la luz x{0026}lt;I Boulderx{0026}lt;/I , su segunda novela, Premi Òmnium a la mejor novela del añox{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P 2020 en catalán, finalista del Prix Les Inrockuptibles 2022 en Francia y finalista delx{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Premio Booker Internacional 2023. x{0026}lt;I Mamutx{0026}lt;/I (2022)cerró el tríptico sobre la vida y losx{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P deseos de tres mujeres.x{0026}lt;/P