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.
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.
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.
Morðhórur
6.490 kr.Smásagnasafn eftir Roberto Bolaño. Ófeigur Sigurðsson útlagði á íslensku.
Smásögurnar í safninu eru álitnar með því besta sem chilenski rithöfundurinn Roberto Bolaño skrifaði og sumar þeirra eru þegar orðnar klassík í samtímabókmenntum. Hér koma fyrir öll helstu einkenni og efnistök höfundarins, kynferðismál, ofbeldi, ljóðlist, glötuð æska og umkomuleysi í framandi heimi; Bolaño er í senn hrár og ljóðrænn og gæddur bæði undraverðri frásagnargáfu og kímnigáfu.
Bókin er riso-prentuð og handsaumauð á prentverkstæði Skriðu, eftir eftirspurn til þess að sporna gegn offramleiðslu og sóun.
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.