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Permafrost
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- Book Synopsis
- Winner of the Llibreter prize chosen by booksellersLonglisted for 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizePermafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like'; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the roles set for her by family and society, chasing escape wherever it can be found: love affairs, travel, thoughts of suicide.Full of powerful, physical imagery, this prize-winning debut novel by acclaimed Catalan poet Eva Baltasar was a word-of-mouth hit in its own language. It is a breathtakingly forthright call for women's freedom to embrace both pleasure and solitude, and speaks boldly of the body, of sex, and of the self.
- About The Author
- Already an acclaimed poet, with ten volumes of poetry to her name, Eva Baltasar's debut novel Permafrost received the 2018 Premi Llibreter from Catalan booksellers and was shortlisted for France's 2020 Prix Médicis for Best Foreign Book. Boulder's English translation was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize . The author lives in a Catalonian village near the mountains.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781911508755
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- And Other Stories, (06 April 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 127 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 197 x 18 mm
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