How To Live An Artful Life
4.690 kr.From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Story of Art Without Men: see the world anew with artistic inspiration for every day of the year. The year ahead is a gift that has been given to you. What might you do with it?Gathered from interviews, personal conversations, books and talks, How to Live an Artful Life moves through the months of the year offering you thoughts, reflections and encouragements from artists such as Marina Abramovic, Nan Goldin, Lubaina Himid, Louise Bourgeois and many more.
The year is full of the promise of work that has yet to be written, paintings that are yet to be painted, people who have yet to meet, talk, or fall in love. With this book in hand, pay attention, and see the world anew. Go out and find it, taste it, seize it, and live it – artfully.
With a thought for every day of the year, whether looking for beginnings in January, freedom in summer, or transformation as the nights draw in, this is a book to cherish and inspire.
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.
The Eleventh Hour
4.390 kr.Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight’s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire.
In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.
These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home India, England and America and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life.
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
Selected Poems 1923-1958
3.990 kr.This selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.e
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.
We Are Green and Trembling
3.690 kr.Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he’s become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a mule driver, shopkeeper, soldier, cabin boy, and conquistador; he has wielded his sword and slashed with his dagger. Now, caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement, and hounded by the army he deserted, this protean protagonist contemplates one more metamorphosis, which just might save the new world from extinction…
Based on the life of Antonio de Erauso, a real figure of the Spanish conquest, We Are Green and Trembling is a queer baroque satire and a historical novel that blends elements of the picaresque with surreal storytelling. Its rich and wildly imaginative language forms a searing criticism of conquest and colonialism, religious tyranny, and the treatment of women and indigenous people. It is a masterful subversion of Latin American history with a trans character at its center, finding in the rainforest a magical, surreal space where transformation is not only possible but necessary.
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.
The Employees
3.490 kr.Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Aboard the interstellar Six Thousand Ship, the human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids. In chilling, crackling, and exhilarating prose, The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity.
Love Poems
2.990 kr.Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: “today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor….” Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda “took refuge” in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.
Shadow Ticket
5.990 kr.Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.
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.
Skjóða – Fyrir jólin
4.590 kr.Skjóða er dóttir tröllskessunnar Grýlu sem tannburstar sig bara einu sinni á ári og Leppalúða sem bakar bestu kanilsnúða í heimi. Skjóða á fleiri en 100 systkini og 13 þeirra þekkir þú vel því jólasveinarnir eru bræður Skjóðu. Sagan hefst í Grýluhelli þar sem Skjóða er að undirbúa jólin en þegar jólakötturinn eignast kettlinga fer allt úr skorðum.
Rækjuvík
6.390 kr.Eftir langan, dimman vetur og vægast sagt glatað vor, er sólin loksins mætt til Reykjavíkur. Tvíburasystkinin Inga og Baldur eru komin í sumarfrí og forvitni þeirra er vakin þegar þau finna dularfullt flöskuskeyti. Þau ákveða að rannsaka málið á sinn einstaka hátt og ævintýri hversdagsins hefjast!
Bókinni fylgja alls konar aukahlutir! Kíktu í vasann aftast til að svala forvitninni!
Rækjuvík er þriðja bókin um tvíburana uppátækjasömu en áður hafa komið Grísafjörður og Héragerði. Fyrri bækurnar voru hlaðnar lofi og hlutu alls konar tilnefningar og verðlaun.
Rækjuvík er bráðskemmtileg, fyndin, litrík og falleg bók um systkini sem eru jafn ólík og dagur og nótt. Hún er sjálfstætt framhald Grísafjarðar og Héragerðis. Lóa Hlín hefur tvívegis hlotið Barnabókaverðlaun Reykjavíkurborgar, verið tilnefnd til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna, Fjöruverðlaunanna, Barnabókaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs og Vestnorrænu barnabókaverðlaunanna. Bækur hennar hafa verið valdar bækur ársins af bóksölum landsins og Morgunblaðinu.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
4.990 kr.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society.
Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
Sense and Sensibility
4.990 kr.Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her.
Through their parallel experience of love – and its threatened loss – the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
Emma
4.990 kr.Beautiful, clever, rich – and single – Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others.
But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.
The Odyssey
4.990 kr.The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats – shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon – Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.