A review by literary_nikki
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

It's taken me a few days and a whole other book to digest this book and it's still flitting about my head like the windows screensaver of old. For a novel where the narrator is so utterly consumed by suicidal thoughts, it still somehow manages to be funny and liberating and full of life and I do not have the foggiest idea how she manages it. I suspect poetry runs through Baltasar's veins. Admittedly, I've only read the English translation but I doubt that anything is lost from the original Catalan. It's a journey through the song lyrics you never understood. 
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