Seint og um síðir
4.590 kr.Þessi bók geymir þrjár firnasterkar sögur sem eiga sameiginlegt að fjalla um samskipti kynjanna.
Í titilsögunni Seint og um síðir fylgjum við Cathal fara inn í helgina á meðan hann rifjar upp samskipti sín við unnustuna sem rann honum úr greipum. Í Langur og kvalafullur dauðdagi kemur rithöfundur í sumarhús Heinrichs Böll til að dvelja við skriftir, en ágengur aðkomumaður raskar ró hennar, og í sögunni Suðurskautið ákveður gift kona í helgarferð að sleppa fram af sér beislinu og upplifa hvernig það sé að sofa hjá öðrum manni.
Allar sögurnar skoða hvernig væntingar, tilætlunarsemi og undirliggjandi hætta á ofbeldi lita samskipti fólks.
Foster
3.490 kr.It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.
The Forester’s Daughter
2.590 kr.The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter’s heart, she’s sure of it.
Claire Keegan’s mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victor Deegan, with his ‘three teenagers, the milking and the mortgage’.When Deegan finds a gun dog and gives it as a present to his only daughter, his wife is filled with foreboding at this seeming act of kindness. As the seasons pass, long-buried family secrets threaten to emerge.
Small Things Like These
3.490 kr.It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him – and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Antarctica
3.490 kr.A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister’s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl.
In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.
So Late in the Day
3.490 kr.After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he might have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude – and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
From one of the world’s great writers, So Late in the Day asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women.
