Purchase
Boulder, August 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
And Other Stories
August 2022
On Sale: August 2, 2022
112 pages
ISBN: 1913505383
EAN: 9781913505387
Kindle: B09MMSXQBW
Trade Size / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Women's Fiction | LGBTQ
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.
| 
© 2003-2026