Mammoth - Eva Baltasar from the Sunday Times bestselling

from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad

uncovering a powerful

showing how the birth and growth of a child changes not only the present and the future

Roberto Calasso illuminates the deepest questions of our existence

Mammoth - Eva Baltasar from the Sunday Times bestsellingMammoths protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. Shes 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