Jamaica Inn
3.690 kr.She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever. On a bitter November evening, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to seek revenge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn.
But the crumbling inn is no safe haven, and Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her domineering husband Joss. In fear of her life, and disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss’s younger brother, Mary is soon plunged into a brutal world of smuggling and murder in which she can trust no one – not even herself.
A Seventh Man
3.690 kr.First published in 1975, this finely wrought investigation remains as urgent as ever, presenting the life of those who have travelled to live and work in Europe. Art critic, novelist, and artist John Berger brings humanity and a voice to those silenced in the political debate about who does and doesn’t belong. Why does the Western world look to migrant labourers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker – the material circumstances and the inner experience – and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life but at its centre.
From A to X: A Story in Letters
3.690 kr.From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds transcendent hope in the pain, fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist
3.690 kr.John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was excluded from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists. Abandoned to obscurity, Neizvestny laboured to realize a monumental and very public vision of art. Exiled to the United States, he finally found recognition, returning to his homeland with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Berger’s account illuminates the very meaning of revolutionary art. In his struggle against official orthodoxy – which brought him into face-to-face conflict with Khrushchev himself – Neizvestny was fight-ing not for a merely personal or aesthetic vision, but for recognition of the social role of art. His sculptures earn a place in the world by reflecting the courage of a whole people, commemorating, in an age of mass suffering, the resistance and endurance of millions.
Embroidery
3.490 kr.At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigurlina finds herself in a hopeless situation. She is the motherless daughter of an eccentric father, who expects her to spend her life helping him catalogue Icelandic archaeological artifacts. But Sigurlina has her own ambitions of education and excitement and after a harrowing experience, takes fate into her own hands. She disappears from Reykjavik, along with a historical relic from her father’s collection. Through a series of incredible events, the artifact is unveiled at The Metropolitan Museum of New York. Meanwhile, officials in Iceland launch their own investigation into the theft of the artifact. A tragicomic tale about the preservation of cultural treasure, an intriguing perspective on the coincidences that have determined their place in history and a thrilling and winding story of the human fates that underpin it all.
Nausea
3.490 kr.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time ― the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.”
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jean-Paul Sartre ― philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist ― holds a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. La Nausée, his first and best novel, is a landmark in Existential fiction and a key work of the twentieth century.
No Longer Human
3.690 kr.The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo’s attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
Eftirför
4.590 kr.„Þögnin var nánast áþreifanleg. Það eina sem heyrðist í þröngu og skítugu rýminu var hans eigin andardráttur sem hljómaði skyndilega framandi, eins og hann tilheyrði einhverjum öðrum. Svona var þá tilfinningin að vera bjargarlaus.“
Þegar fjölskyldufaðirinn Hallur hverfur sporlaust stendur lögreglan ráðþrota gagnvart kaldri slóð. Það er ekkert sem gefur til kynna að hann hafi verið flæktur í neitt misjafnt og langþráð vetrarfrí fjölskyldunnar breytist skyndilega í martröð. Það er engu líkara en að jörðin hafi gleypt hann. Gæti hvarfið tengst dularfullu skilaboðunum sem Selmu, eiginkonu hans, hafa borist að undanförnu?
Lögfræðingurinn Hrefna er komin í starf hjá lögreglunni og þetta mannshvarf ætlar ekki að reynast auðleyst. Angar þess teygja sig víða og lögreglan þarf að hafa sig alla við í kappi við tímann þar sem hver klukkustund telur.
Eftirför er önnur skáldsaga Önnu Rúnar Frímannsdóttur en sú fyrri, Dauðaþögn, hlaut frábærar viðtökur lesenda.
Gunnar Hansson: Arkitektinn og verk hans / The Architect and His Works
13.390 kr.Gunnar Hansson (1925 – 1989) var einn af þeim arkitektum sem ruddi nýjum áherslum leið inn í húsbyggingar og hverfisskipulag hérlendis. Pétur H. Ármannsson skrifar um feril og verk Gunnars og skoðar þau í samhengi alþjóðlegs arkitektúrs um leið og hann varpar ljósi á ævi hans og samtíma. Bókin inniheldur myndir af öllum helstu verkum Gunnars, auk fjölda húsateikninga arkitektsins sjálfs. Bókin er á íslensku og ensku. 224 bls.
Gunnar Hansson (1925 – 1989) was one of the architects who paved the way for new approaches in building construction and urban planning in Iceland. Pétur H. Ármannsson writes about Gunnar’s career and works, examining them in the context of international architecture while shedding light on his life and contemporary era.