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Love In Exile
Original price was: 5.690 kr..3.983 kr.Current price is: 3.983 kr..Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved: addictions and short-lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Faye’s experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her fears. But, as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture.
Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless; in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. In this highly politicized terrain, boundaries are purposefully drawn to keep some in and to keep others out. Those who exist outside them are ignored, denigrated, exiled.
In Love in Exile, Shon Faye shows love is much greater than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave so desperately that we are willing to bend and break ourselves to fit them. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.
Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear
3.690 kr.These poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself, they are filled with rubble and the ever-present menace of surveillance drones policing a people unwelcome in their own land, and they are also suffused with the smell of tea, roses in bloom, and the view of the sea at sunset. Children are born, families continue traditions, students attend university, and libraries rise from the ruins as Palestinians go on about their lives, creating beauty and finding new ways to survive.
Stag Dance
4.390 kr.Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
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The Beauty Of The Husband
4.690 kr.Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 ‘tangos’ of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson’s own unique sensibility.
The unnamed narrator – sometimes ‘I’, sometimes ‘the wife’ – speaks of the man she calls only ‘the husband’, illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects – beauty, desire, love, betrayal – with freshness and devastating power.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN‘S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Red Doc>
4.390 kr.In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called ‘G’, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover ‘Sad’ (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where G’s mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply powerful picaresque verse invites readers on an extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.
Diplómati deyr
4.690 kr.Hópur kanadískra diplómata verður veðurtepptur í opinberri heimsókn í Vestmannaeyjum, þar á meðal sendiherra Kanada á Íslandi og eiginkona hans. Á meðan óveðrið geisar úti fyrir snæða gestirnir saman hátíðarkvöldverð – en svo hnígur aðstoðarsendiherrann niður fyrir framan viðstadda. Fljótlega kemur í ljós að um morð er að ræða og ýmsir liggja undir grun: athafnamaðurinn sem svífst einskis í samningum, meistarakokkurinn sem reiðir fram dýrindis máltíðir úr nærumhverfinu og dularfulla myndlistarkonan sem er að opna sýningu á byggðasafni bæjarins … svo nokkrir séu nefndir. En sendiherrafrúin er hvergi bangin og ákveður að komast til botns í málinu upp á eigin spýtur.
Diplómati deyr er fyrsta skáldsaga Elizu Reid, spennandi og listilega fléttuð glæpasaga þar sem leyndarmálin eru afhjúpuð hvert af öðru.
Magnea J. Matthíasdóttir þýddi.
Millileikur
4.690 kr.Tveir bræður, þrjár ástkonur, sorg, átök og uppgjör: Millileikur er einstaklega áhrifamikil saga um ást, missi og órofa tilfinningabönd eftir hina írsku Sally Rooney, sem hefur vakið heimsathygli fyrir skáldsögur sínar.
Pétur er ríflega þrítugur lögmaður og lifir erilsömu lífi í hringiðu borgarinnar. Hann skemmtir sér grimmt og gistir oft hjá Naomi, sem er ung og villt, en er líka í nánu sambandi við Sylvíu, fyrrverandi unnustu sína sem hann getur ekki hætt að elska. Ívan er tíu árum yngri, var áður upprennandi skáksnillingur en hefur staðnað og líf hans er stefnulaust. Hann er feiminn einfari en þegar hann hittir Margréti, konu á fertugsaldri með erfitt hjónaband að baki, bresta allar varnir og milli þeirra kviknar eldheit ást.
Faðir þessara ólíku bræðra er nýdáinn og sorgin ristir inn í kviku; báðir eru næmir og viðkvæmir, taugarnar þandar. Ástandið leiðir til óbærilegrar spennu, samskiptin eru erfið og hvor um sig þarf að gera upp líf sitt og langanir.
Bókin rauk beint á topp metsölulista The Sunday Times, hefur setið á listum mánuðum saman og var víða kjörin besta bók ársins 2024. Bjarni Jónsson þýddi.
Íslenskir elskhugar
2.990 kr.Íslenskir elskhugar – átján karlmenn ræða um ástina, kynlífið, konuna og karlmennskuna
Á Íslendingaslóðum í Kaupmannahöfn
4.990 kr.Örlagasögur af Íslendingum
Um aldir var Kaupmannahöfn höfuðborg Íslendinga. Þaðan var landinu stjórnað, þar stunduðu menn framhaldsnám eða afplánuðu tukthúsvist. Í þessari stórfróðlegu og skemmtilegu bók rekur Björn Th. Björnsson þróun borgarinnar, fjallar um sögufrægar byggingar og rifjar upp örlagasögur af Íslendingum sem þangað sigldu, bæði broslegar og átakanlegar. Hér koma Fjölnismenn við sögu, Jónshús, furðufuglinn Þorleifur Repp, Jóhann skáld Sigurjónsson, Árnasafn og íslenskir námsmenn á Gamlagarði, svo nokkuð sé nefnt. Bókin kom fyrst út árið 1961 og hefur lengi verið ófáanleg, en nú hefur textinn verið aukinn og lagaður að breyttum aðstæðum. Einnig eru á þriðja hundrað nýjar ljósmyndir í bókinni og hverjum kafla fylgir götukort sem gerir bókina handhæga til að rata eftir um Íslendingaslóðir. Hinir vinsælu sjónvarpsþættir höfundar um Íslendinga í Kaupmannahöfn voru byggðir á nokkrum köflum úr bókinni.
