
Things in Nature Merely Grow
4.690 kr.A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James. ‘There is no good way to say this,’ Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. ‘There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged.
My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.’ There is no good way to say this – because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, ‘a single point in a timeline’.
Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving.
As Li writes, ‘The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James.

History of Violence
3.490 kr.I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment.
He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o’clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me.
He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began. History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, class, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.

Who Killed My Father
3.490 kr.In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship.
Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty. It unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude – those who have their expectations, hopes and passions crushed by a society which gives them little thought.

Road to October 7 : A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism
4.690 kr.In Road to October 7, Erik Skare argues that Palestinian Islamism is far more complex and dynamic than generally assumed. The phenomenon has continuously developed through disputes between moderates and hardliners. These struggles have largely been settled by external drivers – intra-Palestinian competition, Israeli violence and repression, or shifts in the regional power balance.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
3.990 kr.Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called ‘ethnic cleansing’. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population.

Vikuspá
4.390 kr.Vikuspá geymir áttatíu og sex sögur á einföldu máli. Í stuttum og aðgengilegum frásögnum eru ólíkar atvinnugreinar kynntar. Hér er leikið með þá íslensku þjóðtrú að það geti haft áhrif á hvað barn taki sér fyrir hendur í framtíðinni á hvaða vikudegi það fæðist. Sögupersónur takast á við þrautir og sigra í leit að hinum gullna meðalveg, milli frama og lukku. Sögurnar varpa ljósi á fegurð mannflórunnar og mikilvægi þess að þroskast og þróast í takt við tímann.
Vikuspá er sjálfstætt framhald af Árstíðum og Dagatali sem hafa notið mikilla vinsælda og verið kenndar víða á Íslandi sem og erlendis. Textarnir eru fjölbreyttir hvað varðar efnistök, form og stíl og flokkaðir eftir getustigi í samráði við sérfræðinga. Þar að auki fylgir viðauki með margskonar fróðleik um land og þjóð. Bókin nýtist jafnt við kennslu sem og til yndislestrar.

Auður
1.290 kr.Auður, dóttir víkingahöfðingjans Ketils flatnefs, vex upp á Suðureyjum, ættstór og skapheit. Allt hennar fólk er heiðið en þegar hún kynnist Gilla munki laðast hún bæði að honum og boðskap hans um Hvítakrist. Fullveðja er Auður gefin Ólafi hvíta, konungi yfir Dyflinni á Írlandi. Samband þeirra er heitt en stormasamt og vináttan við Gilla verður henni dýrkeypt …
Auður djúpúðga er í hópi þekktustu landnema Íslands. Hér er þroskasaga hennar sögð um leið og dregin er upp mynd af þeim róstusömu tímum þegar norrænir menn lögðu undir sig eyjarnar við Skotland og herjuðu í Vesturhafi. Vilborg Davíðsdóttir er þaulkunnug mannlífi sögutímans og Auður rís úr djúpi aldanna, sterk og heillandi kona.

The Red Tenda of Bologna
1.290 kr.‘It’s an improbable city, Bologna – like one you might walk through after you have died.’
A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.




