Permafrost - Eva Baltasar Crime a year in the life

a year in the life of our kitchens to aid you in yours

Your father is quietly absorbed into the enormous TV gifted by the government

if we choose to practise

searing and intimate' - New York Times'Saoirse deserves to be on prize lists this year

Angela's pasta al forno and Carlo's beloved Sicilian doughnuts - it's all here for you to recreate at home

Permafrost - Eva Baltasar Crime a year in the lifeWinner of the Llibreter prize chosen by booksellersLonglisted for 2022 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation PrizePermafrost's no bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, `because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like'; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And everywhere she goes,