BOOKS
Boulder
by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches (And Other Stories, ISBN 9781913505387) andotherstories.org
Being told by your new lover that she doesn’t like your name and that she is going to call you Boulder instead might be considered an inauspicious start to a relationship, even if the name is fitting (the narrator defines herself as ‘like a large, solitary rock’). Prior to meeting Samsa, Boulder is a free spirit. She works as a cook on freighters, is answerable to no-one and lives in the moment. But Samsa and Boulder fall in love, and Boulder starts to make compromises, including giving up her job to settle in Reykjavik.
