Fiction
Permagel/Permafrost
by Eva Baltasar
Description
Published in Catalan (Club Editor).
Shortlisted for the Médicis Étranger Award 2020 (France).
Rights sold: World English (And Other Stories), French (Verdier), Spanish (Literatura Random House), Italian (Nottetempo), Portuguese/Portugal (Confluencias), Galician (Kalandraka).
The #1 Catalan bestseller and winner of the Llibreter booksellers prize, poet Baltasar’s debut novel is a forthright study of lesbian sexuality and suicide.
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 of the body, of sex, and of the self.
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Rights Information
Published in Catalan (Club Editor).
Rights sold: World English (And Other Stories), French (Verdier), Spanish (Literatura Random House), Italian (Nottetempo), Portuguese/Portugal (Confluencias), Galician (Kalandraka).
Endorsements
‘Released from my annual dose of Bernhard, I usually feel a need for more and I usually do not have anything dark enough to hand. But this time I did - Permafrost by Eva Baltasar.’ - Inma Monsó
Carme Riera and Albert Puigdueta, editors at Literatura Random House, say about the novel: «A novel of absolute strength in depth and form. Eva Baltasar has managed to transfer the power of her poems to this story full of strong, palpable, very physical images. The pulse between death and the most carnal pleasures is constant in this magnificent debut, as well as the biting tone of a protagonist who conquers us with her intelligence from the first page.»
Reviews
"Baltasar is very skilled. A Catalan Dorothy Parker. Ironic, implacable.” - La Repubblica (Italy)
"An investigation of the body as an instrument for measuring pain and desire. A besieged, solemn and majestically painful body, which ideally embraces all of humanity." -La Stampa (Italy)
"Eva Baltasar debuts as a novelist with a high voltage book about the self, the body, sex and the family. One of the books of the year.” - La Vanguardia
"The discovery of the year"- Time Out Barcelona
"Without doubt, one of the most memorable protagonists of contemporary Catalan narrative." - El Periódico
“Intimate, beautiful, ironic and surprising.” - Nuvol
"An agile and electrifying writing and a personal, raw and lucid gaze. It convinces." - Eva Piquer, Ara Llegim
Author Biography
Eva Baltasar has published ten volumes of poetry which have received widespread recognition and numerous awards. Her debut work of fiction, Permafrost, received the 2018 Premi Llibreter (Catalan Booksellers Award) and is the first novel in a triptych which aims to explore the universes of three different women in the first person. The author lives a simple life with her two daughters in a village near the mountains.
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- Publisher Club Editor
- Orginal LanguageCatalan
- ISBN/Identifier 9788473292269
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2018
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