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. While immersing myself into Boulder’s world, I realized that the prose was full of metaphors, similes and other figures of speech - usually I find this kind of writing quite underwhelming. Yet, after getting to know the narrator slightly better, I felt it wasn’t completely incongruous with her peculiar and detached, but deeply poetic worldview. Boulder’s raw vocabulary is her second nature, there is something addictive about her voice. An abundant marine imagery with its sea, ships and sailors hints at the bigger picture which is to take place in this novel.

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Catalan author and poet, Eva Baltasar follows her debut novel Permafrost with the second in a planned triptych, each tightly focused on an individual woman’s experiences. Themes around solitude and the overwhelming pull of physical desire are once again central. Everything’s told in the first person from an unnamed woman's perspective, she's exchanged her past in Spain for a remote Patagonian Island. Her existence is deliberately nomadic; rootlessness and a love of freedom are her defining features. She’s all about the journey, never the destination. She takes lovers but they're "as fleeting as shooting stars.” Eventually she lands the perfect job, cooking on a freighter, hopping from one isolated port to another. But then she meets Samsa, a Scandinavian geologist working ashore, and she’s instantly infatuated. Earlier this year, I read Guadalupe Nettel’s Still Born and that book was two friends. One dislikes children, while the other wants them. Eventually both women experience motherhood or love for a child. La decisió anticipa un ésser que ja existeix i que ho colonitza tot. La seva presència té densitat, ocupa la casa amb tentacles definitius, s'enfonsa al crani dels seus habitants i s'arrapa al tel que els embolcalla el cervell. Reading Eva Baltasar's Permafrost is like having a rug continuously pulled out from under you until finally the rug disappears. How can a novel that orbits suicide be so surprising, so intensely liberating and funny, and at the same time, so full of grief? That is its genius. Catherine LaceyWhale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, who is also a film-maker, is translated from Korean by Chi-Young Kim. It is a collection of stories about the lives of linked characters in a remote village in South Korea.

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An explosively witty, intense novel about freedom, desire and the body — Baltasar's voice is as bracing and sharp as cold mountain air, and her queer exploration of being and intimacy is intoxicating. Raw, fresh and uncompromising new writing.’ Imma Monsó Qué fuerte, qué fuerza. No llegan a 120 páginas, pero no sobra ni una frase. Tengo que darle otra vuelta, porque estoy seguro de que me he perdido ideas, imágenes...... Eva Baltasar irrumpió en el panorama literario con 'Permagel', libro que ganó el Premi Llibreter, enseguida destacó por alzarse como una voz poderosa y contundente, hasta granítica. También por introducir un tema relativamente poco tratado hasta entonces en las letras catalanas: el lesbianismo visto desde la actualidad. 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”. 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 will trump her yearning for love.

Las mil caras de la maternidad

Eva Baltasar's Permafrost, translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches, is a mordant novel that takes the demands of the body seriously. Sex, death, piss, and illness run throughout this unrepentant monologue, all pointing to a truth of our condition that many polite writers steer safely clear of, but one that tells us just what it is to be a human in an ill-fitting world.' Anna Claire Weber Abreu’s emotionally resonant debut charts the tumultuous friendship between two 10-year-old girls over the course of the summer of 2005 in the Canary Islands. The unnamed narrator is fascinated by Continue reading »

Reading guide: Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia

Ramon Pardina, guardonat amb el premi Joaquim Ruyra de Blanes - Núria Astorch - Blanes". El Punt Avui . Retrieved February 3, 2019.Il fallait son écriture au plus près des sensations, pour dire ce beau personnage de femme verrouillée dans une carapace de silence, inadaptée au monde, déstabilisée par une histoire de couple imprévue qui la dépasse, et pour toujours hantée par l’appel du large.» Sylvie Tannett — “Boulder” d’Eva Baltasar : quand une femme ne veut pas d’enfant avec sa compagne