Boulder
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4,0 • 1 Bewertung
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
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.
Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world – and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.
Kundenrezensionen
Okay.
I don’t know why I couldn’t get into the story, from the get go I didn’t feel connected to the protagonist at all. Her actions weren’t understandable to me
I think the topic of relationship dynamics and children in sapphic relationships is so interesting but I wished that this would have been more explored, especially since all characters but the protagonist appear very one dimensional (not because they are but because we don’t really get to know much about them).
I really wanted to know how life continues for the characters but the book ended right at the point where I was hoping to find out what happens in the next few years of the characters lives.
The writing itself is beautiful (full of metaphors and analogies) but I can’t help but feel disappointed because I expected so much more of the story.