Boulder: Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

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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. The protagonist feels at home in barren and stark locales, or adrift in the ocean. Discuss how landscape plays an important role in Boulder and how it speaks to the human drama that unfolds. Every translation is a collaboration, regardless of how closely you work with the author. This is the second book I’ve translated by Eva Baltasar – I’m working on the third now – and my familiarity with her work informed the choices I made in Boulder. Of course, I also sent Eva some queries after finishing a draft. She has always been helpful, receptive and respectful of my work, and it’s a joy when that trust can flow in both directions.’

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Escrito en clave de un monólogo interior de menos de 150 páginas, Baltasar nos permitirá profundizar en la intimidad de los pensamientos de Boulder, en donde presenciaremos una amplia gama de sentimientos conforme avance el tiempo y tanto ella como su relación con Sasha maduran y se transforman. Desde la ilusión de los comienzos al desengaño de los finales, pasando por la incertidumbre del futuro, el tedio de la rutina y hasta la maravilla del descubrimiento, Baltasar crea un relato que destaca por la sencillez de sus hechos y la complejidad de la mente de su protagonista.» Fuad Gonzalo Chacón en La nación — Una nueva chance Eva Baltasar: "Per a mi la poesia és una de les moltes formes que pren l'amor" – L'estenedor". antoniriera.wordpress.com. February 4, 2014 . Retrieved February 3, 2019.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 »

Book Review: “Boulder,” by Eva Baltasar - The New York Times

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. La suya es una subjetividad poética que mira el mundo y descubre que todo eso que nos contiene puede mirarse por primera vez.» I wrote three Boulders. Three different novels with the same title and the same intention: portraying a boulder-like character. The title came first; that word was what inspired me. The first and second iterations of Boulder were a struggle, the product of two and a half years of constant writing. I tried to create a character, to be the hand that shapes the soul and maps out a story for the body. But I wasn’t in love with those two characters, who were completely different from each other. I need to want to be with my characters, to meet them again every day, be in their company when I reread the novel, and love them through language, which is the only way I have of touching them. But I couldn’t. Le texte interpelle par sa dureté et réalisme, mais sans aucun pathos, cru et féroce avec des moments d'une grande sensualité. 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.And Other Stories publishes some of the best in contemporary writing, including many translations. We aim to push people’s reading limits and help them discover authors of adventurous and inspiring writing. 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. ’ Boulder is longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Award. You can read further about the longlist of 13 books here. The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday, April 18. The winning title will be announced on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.