Mammoth Eva Baltasar

Name: Mammoth By Eva Baltasar
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Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

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Mammoth Summary

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024

AN OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR 2024

Mammoths protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. Shes inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work - all in pursuit of life in the raw.

This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasars wild voice.

Mammoth Reviews

The title of the novel is a metaphor for the protagonist, who sees herself as a strong, powerful animal, capable of handling anything, although the author reminds us that mammoths were under threat from being hunted by the humans of the time. Europapress

About Eva Baltasar

Already an acclaimed poet, with ten volumes of poetry to her name, Eva Baltasars debut novel Permafrost received the 2018 Premi Llibreter from Catalan booksellers and was shortlisted for Frances 2020 Prix Medicis for Best Foreign Book. Boulders English translation was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize . The author lives in a Catalonian village near the mountains. Julia Sanches translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. For And Other Stories she has translated from all three languagesfrom the Portuguese, Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques, from the Catalan the forthcoming Permafrost by Eva Baltasar, and from the Spanish, Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez, for which she won a PEN/Heim award. She has also translated works by Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, and Geovani Martins, among others. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators collective, and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Sku

GOR013779845

ISBN 13

9781916751002

ISBN 10

1916751008

Title

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

Author

Eva Baltasar

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

And Other Stories

Year published

2024-08-06

Number of pages

144

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

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