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Description: Winner of the Llibreter prize chosen by booksellers Longlisted for 2022 Oxford - Weidenfeld Translation Prize Permafrost'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.
Title: Permafrost
Author(s): Baltasar Eva
Publisher: And Other Stories
Barcode: 9781911508755
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 4/20/2021
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: Winner of the Llibreter prize chosen by booksellers Longlisted for 2022 Oxford - Weidenfeld Translation Prize Permafrost'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.
Title: Permafrost
Author(s): Baltasar Eva
Publisher: And Other Stories
Barcode: 9781911508755
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 4/20/2021
Category: Fiction In Translation