Three Wild Bodies
These powerhouse novels from Catalan superstar Eva Baltasar tell wild, delirious tales of queer women blazing new trails through sexuality, motherhood, and friendship.
The roving narrator of Permafrost trades one home for another – moving around Europe in pursuit of liberation, sex, self, and autonomy. In the International Booker-shortlisted Boulder a woman gives up her job as a Chilean fishing boat’s cook to move to Reykjavik with Samsa, the woman she loves. But when Samsa decides she wants to have a baby, she must decide whether this domestic idyll is what she is really looking for. In Mammoth, a young, disenchanted lesbian is looking to rearrange her life. She seduces a string of random men in an attempt to get pregnant and moves to a remote farmhouse to take care of sheep, battle stray cats, dabble in sex work – all in search of a more powerful, deeply felt life.
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- Watch Eva Baltasar & Lina Muruane discuss body politics and literature as part of the 2021 Edinburgh International Book Festival.
- Would it shock you to discover the author of Mammoth is a fan of Thoreau’s Walden? Find out what else Eva recommends with this curated bookshop.org list.
- Get a little insight into the writing process behind the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Boulder.
Reviews
Fernanda Melchor
‘Exquisite, dark and unconventional, Eva Baltasar turns intimacy into a wild adventure.’
Leïla Slimani, member and president of the 2023 International Booker Prize Jury
‘Boulder is a sensual, sexy and intense book. Eva Baltasar condenses the sensations and experiences of a dozen novels into just over a hundred pages of vibrant prose. An incisive story of queer love and motherhood, it dissects the dilemmas of trading independence for intimacy.’


