Boulder

Name: Boulder
Author: Eva Baltasar
ISBN: 9781913505387

Eva Baltasar

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Boulder

Eva Baltasar

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#2595 of 8,085 books · #1128 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023).

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.

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