Mammoth
Eva Baltasar author Julia Sanches translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:And Other Stories
Published:6th Aug '24
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 6th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Like a lesbian Walden where everything goes terribly wrong, Mammoth is the latest from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Boulder
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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.
‘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
ISBN: 9781916751002
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
144 pages