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Boulder (Paperback)
Eva Baltasar; Translated by Julia Sanches
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R301
Discovery Miles 3 010
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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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Permafrost (Paperback)
Eva Baltasar; Translated by Julia Sanches
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R338
R305
Discovery Miles 3 050
Save R33 (10%)
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Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover
and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out
of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is
a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like'; as an au pair
in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And
everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the roles set for
her by family and society, chasing escape wherever it can be found:
love affairs, travel, thoughts of suicide. Full of powerful,
physical imagery, this prize-winning debut novel by acclaimed
Catalan poet Eva Baltasar was a word-of-mouth hit in its own
language. It is a breathtakingly forthright call for women's
freedom to embrace both pleasure and solitude, and speaks boldly of
the body, of sex, and of the self.
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