Sjö manngerðir sem finna má í bókabúðum
4.390 kr.Bækur Shauns Bythell um lífið í fornbókabúðinni hans í Wigton á Skotlandi hafa slegið í gegn víða um heim. Þar er brugðið upp lifandi myndum af daglegum gestum í bókabúðinni, skrýtna fólkinu sem vinnur þar, kettinum Kafteini og öllu amstrinu sem fylgir lífi fornbókasalans.
Í þessari bók reynir Shaun að átta sig á fólkinu sem ratað hefur í búðina hans á langri bóksalaævi. Heilt yfir finnst honum að viðskiptavinina megi flokka í sjö ólíkar manngerðir. Hnyttnar og snjallar mannlýsingar fornbókasalans gera þessa litlu bók að einstökum skemmtilestri.
Snjólaug Bragadóttir íslenskaði.
„Grátbroslegar lýsingar … engum er hlíft.“ – Washington Post
„Fornbókasalinn lætur allt flakka með snilldarlegum hætti … mannfyrlitning í bland við elskulegheit.“ – Guardian“
The House of Sleep
990 kr.Sarah is narcoleptic. Her inability to distinguish between dreams and waking reality gives rise to many misunderstandings. For Terry, a disillusioned film critic, sleep is merely a memory. For Dr Dunstan, sleep is nothing less than a global disease.Constructed to reflect the different stages of sleep, The House of Sleep is a brilliant and original comedy about the powers we acquire – and those we relinqish – when we fall asleep, and when we fall in love.
Pigeon English
990 kr.Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers – the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen – blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him.
With equal fascination for the local gang – the Dell Farm Crew – and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival.
But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe.
A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.
Hóras prins af Hákoti
4.390 kr.Uppgjafabóndinn Hóras gerist róni í Reykjavík á sjöunda áratug 20. aldar. Hann kemur víða við sögu og er um tíma formaður 17. nefndar Reykjavíkurborgar og síðar forsætisráðherra en stefnumálin eru vafasöm og sögulok ill. Hóras prins af Hákoti er drepfyndinn harmleikur í bundnu máli, ortur af galsafenginni ófyrirleitni sem kankast á við klassískan skáldskap fyrri alda.
Ör
990 kr.Jónas Ebeneser er 49 ára fráskilinn, valdalaus og gagnkynhneigður karlmaður sem hefur ekki haldið utan um bert kvenmannshold – alla vega ekki viljandi – í átta ár og fimm mánuði.
En hann er handlaginn. Hann hefur flísalagt sjö baðherbergi og þegar hann leggur af stað í ferðalag sem hann hefur ekki hugsað sér að snúa aftur úr, tekur hann með sér borvél.
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir fjallar um stærstu spurningar mannsins, um lífið, dauðann og sjálfa ástina sem öllu skiptir, í sinni fimmtu skáldsögu. Auður Ava hefur skrifað skáldsögur, leikrit, ljóð og er textahöfundur popphljómsveitarinnar Milkywhale. Hún er margverðlaunuð fyrir skáldsögur sínar sem hafa verið þýddar á fjölmörg tungumál.
Af steypu
2.990 kr.Afbók #5
Dagblaðið frá því í gær er í öllum aðalatriðum það sama og dagblaðið í dag. Þar að auki er stór hluti alls þessa texta tilþrifalaus, smekklaus, lágkúrulegur og beinlínis heimskulegur. Nefljóð? Öngljóð? Gómljóð? Vefðu bókinni upp, stingdu henni í flösku og fleygðu henni í hafið. Það getur verið svo mikill léttir að komast í óhlutbundið efni eftir áralanga neyslu alþjóðlegra fríljóða. Djöfulsins skens og stælar alltaf hreint. Starðu á tungumálið þar til það brotnar. Til að sjá það þarf engin gleraugu. Reglubundin hrynjandi fannst honum svæfandi. Lítið annað en leikfimisæfingar. Nema fallega innbundið flúr í bókasafn hinna vel stæðu. Þetta er reiturinn sem við fengum þér. Bíttu gras og haltu sáttmálann. Hrein og klár minni- máttarkennd sem á rætur sínar í grárri forneskju. Líkt og sífrið í (misgömlum) ellibjúgum er nýjunin eilíf og ódrepandi. Lífið er stutt og klisjurnar eru margar.
-Brot úr formála ritstjóra
Who Will Tell My Story?: A Gaza Diary
3.990 kr.It was a sleepless night full of tears and fear . . .
I am not sure – if I make it out alive – if I will still possess what makes me, me. And I wonder: will I be there in the future, or will I be someone to be remembered in a diary or over a cup of tea by a friend after I am gone?
Who Will Tell My Story? presents an ordinary existence interrupted by unfathomably seismic and unjust events.
On the ground during the first months of the assault on Gaza following the events of 7 October, the author of this diary – first published in The Guardian – maps out the physical and psychological terrain of a life under siege. Traversing the bombed ruins of his country, we see him as he searches for foodstuffs and power to charge devices, maintaining contact with the outside world, checking in with his friends and family along the way; we see his heart swing between despair and faith, fear and optimism, his mind imagining different futures and confronting the brutal truth of his present. Shining a light on the fate of all those living through war and occupation, Who Will Tell My Story? conveys with astonishing clarity how seeds of hope might linger amid the most trying of times.
Memories of the Future
3.490 kr.Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening – from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door.
Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement.
Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination?
Madame Bovary
3.490 kr.This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads. In an attempt to break from the drab reality of her provincial life in Normandy, Emma takes a lover, and disaster soon follows. Greedy, delusional and selfish, the character of Emma Bovary scandalised readers from the novel’s first publication in 1857, yet her magnetism is undeniable.
A landmark work in modern realism, Madame Bovary vibrates with the inner life of a woman hungry for more. Meet ten of literature’s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
The History of Love
990 kr.Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother’s loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author.
Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn’t know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives. . .