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Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Calvin Park Branch | Fiction Balta | On loan until: 15/May/24 |
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Title Statement | Boulder / Eva Baltasar ; translated by Julia Sanches. |
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Author | Baltasar, Eva |
Additional Contributors | Sanches, Julia |
Baltasar, Eva | |
Publication | Sheffield: And Other Stories,2022. |
Edition | First edition in English. |
Extent of Item | 105 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781913505387 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06617636 |
General Notes | Originally published as Boulder by Club Editor in 2020. |
Languages | In English; translated from the Catalan. |
Summary | 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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Cooks--Fiction |
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction | |
Lesbian couples--Fiction | |
Lesbians--Fiction | |
Motherhood--Fiction | |
Women cooks--Fiction | |
Women--Fiction | |
By Location | Reykjavík (Iceland)--Fiction |
By Genre | Lesbian fiction |
Queer fiction | |
Novels |