Boulder

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**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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781913505387
Published: August 2022

Number of pages: 112
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: And Other Stories