Mammoth

The final book in Baltasar's exploration of motherhood is as deranged as the previous two, which is to say: pretty deranged. The protagonist-narrator is a lesbian who lives in Barcelon and works in some sort of research project involving old people in homes. She loves to plot a good plan, and has an unconvential sense of morality, two qualities she puts to use when she decides to get pregnant. The second part of the book sees her moving to the country side, where she lives a grotesque, extreme version of pastoral life, shedding all comfort and extra and embracing self-reliance and brute nature. She fights for survival, and, sometimes, kills (for example, a loads of kittens). Her neighbour, a shepard, helps her getting to ropes with things, and fullfil her desire for a baby, but not the way you (or she) anticipated.