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Boulder / Eva Baltasar ; translated by Julia Sanches. - Sheffield ; London ; New York : And Other Stories, 2022. - 105, [4] strony ; 20 cm.

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Baltasar Eva (1978- ). Autor Sanches Julia. Tłumacz

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Książki Proza

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Literatura katalońska

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Ciąża Kobieta Lesbijki Mniejszości seksualne Samotność Relacje międzyludzkie Trudne sytuacje życiowe

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Książka w języku angielskim. Poet and novelist Baltasar returns with a sinewy if somewhat predictable story about a tempestuous relationship between two women... 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.

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Baltasar Eva (1978- ). Autor Sanches Julia. Tłumaczenie

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Lesbijki Społeczeństwo Trudne sytuacje życiowe

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Książka w języku angielskim. Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s 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 Baltasar’s wild voice.

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

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Permafrost / Eva Baltasar ; translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches. - Sheffield ; London ; New York : And Other Stories, 2021. - 131, [10] stron ; 20 cm.

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Baltasar Eva (1978- ). Autor Sanches Julia. Tłumacz

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Książki Proza

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Literatura katalońska

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Lesbijki Rodzina Relacje międzyludzkie Myśli samobójcze Kobieta Ciało ludzkie Seksualność Wolność Rola społeczna Ucieczki Bruksela (Belgia) Barcelona (Hiszpania)

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Książka w języku angielskim. 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 boldly of the body, of sex, and of the self.

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

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Greer James. Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Bliźnięta Kobieta Tłumacze Trudne sytuacje życiowe

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Książka w języku angielskim. Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of her building. It’s a full life. Vanessa has just started working on an English translation of a titillating, experimental thriller by a dead author when she’s offered a more prominent gig: translating the latest book by an Extremely Famous French Writer who is not in any way based on Michel Houellebecq. As soon as she agrees to meet this writer, however, her other, more obscure project begins to fight back―leading Vanessa down into a literary hell of traps and con games and sadism and doppelgangers and mystic visions and strange assignations and, finally, the secret of life itself. Peppered with “sponsored content” providing cocktail recipes utilizing a brand of liquor imported by the film director Steven Soderbergh, and with a cameo from the actress Juno Temple, Bad Eminence is at once an old-school literary satire in the mode of Vladimir Nabokov as well as a jolly thumb in the eyes of contemporary screen-life and digital celebrity.

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Poliglotka (Nowolipki 21)

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