Descripción
Eva Baltasar, a finalist for the Booker International Prize, is back with this fascinating novel.
"Baltasar's style is impeccable . -El País
"Exquisite, dark, and unconventional. -Fernanda Melchor
Keeping your head above water has become your only aspiration. Your job is precarious and you live in a sublet, despite a college degree that was supposed to set you up for success. Suddenly, even this is pulled out from under you. From one day to the next, everything that shouldn't happen, happens: You have no job or roof over your head, and you've been sucker punched into the bargain. Your life is no longer about following the rules. You create your own webs of lies. You gain entry into other people's homes. They think you are there to clean. They think you are there to make their lives easier. But in fact, you are the big bad wolf, because you have nothing to lose. After the motherhood trilogy that gained her international acclaim, Eva Baltasar turns her provocative eye to the upending of the social pact. Her poetry is a hymn to stormy nights, to the unease of feeling invisible in the big city. Her lucid prose reveals the point where crime and devotion meet. And her new novel is a story in which horror is the fairy dust sprinkled on the world. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Eva Baltasar, a finalist for the Booker International Prize, is back with this fascinating novel.
Keeping your head above water has become your only aspiration. Your job is precarious and you live in a sublet, despite a college degree that was supposed to set you up for success. Suddenly, even this is pulled out from under you. From one day to the next, everything that shouldn't happen, happens: You have no job or roof over your head, and you've been sucker punched into the bargain. Your life is no longer about following the rules. You create your own webs of lies. You gain entry into other people's homes. They think you are there to clean. They think you are there to make their lives easier. But in fact, you are the big bad wolf, because you have nothing to lose. After the motherhood trilogy that gained her international acclaim, Eva Baltasar turns her provocative eye to the upending of the social pact. Her poetry is a hymn to stormy nights, to the unease of feeling invisible in the big city. Her lucid prose reveals the point where crime and devotion meet. And her new novel is a story in which horror is the fairy dust sprinkled on the world.
Author: Eva Baltasar
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9788439743941
ISBN10: 8439743947
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Spain | 21st Century
"Baltasar's style is impeccable . -El País
"Exquisite, dark, and unconventional. -Fernanda Melchor
Keeping your head above water has become your only aspiration. Your job is precarious and you live in a sublet, despite a college degree that was supposed to set you up for success. Suddenly, even this is pulled out from under you. From one day to the next, everything that shouldn't happen, happens: You have no job or roof over your head, and you've been sucker punched into the bargain. Your life is no longer about following the rules. You create your own webs of lies. You gain entry into other people's homes. They think you are there to clean. They think you are there to make their lives easier. But in fact, you are the big bad wolf, because you have nothing to lose. After the motherhood trilogy that gained her international acclaim, Eva Baltasar turns her provocative eye to the upending of the social pact. Her poetry is a hymn to stormy nights, to the unease of feeling invisible in the big city. Her lucid prose reveals the point where crime and devotion meet. And her new novel is a story in which horror is the fairy dust sprinkled on the world. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Eva Baltasar, a finalist for the Booker International Prize, is back with this fascinating novel.
Keeping your head above water has become your only aspiration. Your job is precarious and you live in a sublet, despite a college degree that was supposed to set you up for success. Suddenly, even this is pulled out from under you. From one day to the next, everything that shouldn't happen, happens: You have no job or roof over your head, and you've been sucker punched into the bargain. Your life is no longer about following the rules. You create your own webs of lies. You gain entry into other people's homes. They think you are there to clean. They think you are there to make their lives easier. But in fact, you are the big bad wolf, because you have nothing to lose. After the motherhood trilogy that gained her international acclaim, Eva Baltasar turns her provocative eye to the upending of the social pact. Her poetry is a hymn to stormy nights, to the unease of feeling invisible in the big city. Her lucid prose reveals the point where crime and devotion meet. And her new novel is a story in which horror is the fairy dust sprinkled on the world.
Author: Eva Baltasar
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9788439743941
ISBN10: 8439743947
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Spain | 21st Century
About the Author
Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, 1978) has published eleven poetry collections and debuted as a novelist with Permafrost, winner of the Premi Llibreter 2018 and a finalist for the Prix Médicis étranger in 2020, translated into several languages and one of the literary phenomena of recent times. In 2020, Boulder, her second novel, was released, winning the Premi Òmnium for the best novel of 2020 in Catalan, a finalist for the Prix Les Inrockuptibles 2022 in France, and a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2023. Mamut (2022) concluded the triptych on the lives and desires of three women.