Boulder: Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

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Una mujer independiente, que gusta de la soledad, se encuentra bien en su mundo interior que ha hecho a su medida. Trabaja en un buque mercante como cocinera, no necesita más; baja del barco en algún puerto en busca de una compañía que la haga sentir viva, sin ataduras, sin compromisos. Permagel' d'Eva Baltasar guanya el 8è Premi L'Illa dels Llibres L'illa dels llibres -". illadelsllibres.com. August 31, 2018 . Retrieved February 3, 2019.

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Le texte interpelle par sa dureté et réalisme, mais sans aucun pathos, cru et féroce avec des moments d'une grande sensualité. Food: “If I’ve got one skill in the kitchen, it’s carving things up. The rest is hardly an art” (6). The idea of words growing over you, reclaiming you into the wild of language, is a beautiful thought and Baltasar has a mastery of prose that makes it come alive. It is no surprise to learn she is a well-regarded poet. Je la regarde et je chavire, bien qu’elle soit suédoise et touche le salaire souillé de sang d’une multinationale. Je la regarde et elle remplit tout l’espace. Mon regard est une corde qui l’entoure et l’amène vers moi. Elle lève les yeux, elle me trouve. Elle sait. Sexy and intense, Boulder is a vibrant love story between two women, exploring their relationship to the body and to sensuality - and the moment when the harmony of love breaks down. It’s a sumptuous exploration of desire, illuminated by inventive and dazzling images.Boulder is the second installment of a triptych in which Eva Baltasar explores in first person the universe of three different women, who live the contradictions of their time. Despite some qualms about the writing, I thought Boulder was a refreshing novel with a subversive take on motherhood, gender roles and relationships. Through such intricate writing, in Julia Sanches’s voraciously readable translation, the author deftly manages to elevate the idea of a relationship to a force of nature, with the character of Boulder representing the struggle to reconcile a desire to be alone with a desire for company.’

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The book is like a prose poem wherein the narrative comprises of short poetic ruminations as if the narrator has drunk life through soul, and throbbing & pulsating soul of her is now crying of life through these outbursts. The narrator is brutal and ruthless but honest with no veneer of morality to be socially acceptable. She is like a free wind which gusts over the untamed sea of human desires and passions. But the hurricane comes halt on encounter with motherhood and grapples to comprehend & accept it. While Samsa is completely at home with motherhood, Boulder feels as if it throws her away from her life of love, passions, and desires which she carefully has carved out through her independent and free will.Whale follows bizarre occurrences in the lives of linked characters in a remote village in South Korea. The judges said it would “fill you with awe” and was a “book to be swallowed by and to live inside for a while”.

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Eva Baltasar guanya el premi Gabriel Ferrater de poesia". ara.cat. March 9, 2016 . Retrieved February 3, 2019.Baltasar, by way of Sanches’ translation, conjures a version of motherhood that shies away from the word. Instead, it’s an approximation, asking us to lean away from learned language, from the exact. And perhaps it shouldn’t have a name; maybe some things – like love – are meant to be hard to define.’

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Boulder is sexy, but not in the typical way. It’s not all slippery blue flame; it’s more… sharpened cleaver, swinging down before you’ve a chance to protect your vitals.

Journalist Ramón debuts with a sobering chronicle of her family’s struggles in Venezuela as its economy fluctuated during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Her Spanish father, a businessman who Continue reading » Boulder, a story about queer love and motherhood, was described by the judges as a “very intense, poetic, sensual book about all kinds of appetites”. Familias en Estados Unidos consiguen retirar de las aulas el diario de Ana Frank. Fuente: La Vanguardia This is an utterly hypnotic novella from the brilliant Eva Baltasar that gave us Permafrost; and a well-deserved candidate for the International Booker Prize 2023. A magma of sensations, doubts and aspirations. A trove of treasures. The piquancy of this novel, a surprise word-of-mouth hit in Spain, comes from the gap between the fantasies projected onto the narrator by the women around her––who see in her a free and contented woman––and the suffocating feeling constricting her. ’