How long does it take to read Boulder?
Eva Baltasar
Boulder by Eva Baltasar takes about 2 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 31 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2020. 137 pages, about 37,675 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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.
Subjects: queer, Love, fiction
