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Boulder : Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize, Paperback / softback Book

Boulder : Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize Paperback / softback

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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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