Don Juan
9.890 kr.Don Juan er piltur af spænskum lágaðli alinn upp af strangri og siðavandri móður. Eftir að hafa valdið safaríku hneyksli á heimaslóð er hann sendur úr landi sér til betrunar. Hann lendir í miklum ævintýrum: sjávarháska á Miðjarðarhafi, ástarævintýri á grískri eyju, er seldur á þrælamarkaði í Konstanínópel einni eiginkonu soldánsins á laun henni til holdlegra þarfa, tekst að flýja, gengur til liðs við her Katrínar miklu Rússlandsdrottningar og verður eftirlætiselskhugi hennar um hríð. Hún gerir hann út sem sérlegan sendiherra til Englands.
Um þetta allt og miklu fleira yrkir Byron lávarður í þessu verki. Hann tvinnar saman eigin lífsreynslu og ævintýri Dons Juans og prjónar við sínar meinhæðnu athugasemdir um menn og málefni eins og honum var einum lagið.
Hin helga kvöl
8.490 kr.Hin helga kvöl er þrettánda bókin um rannsóknarlögreglumanninn sérlundaða Hörð Grímsson, sem hefur fyrir löngu skipað sér í hóp allra vinsælustu skáldsagnapersóna samtímans.
Lík af karlmanni finnst skammt frá Reykjanesbraut og Hörður Grímsson er kallaður á vettvang. Líkið reynist vera af fyrrverandi sjómanni sem hafði misst tökin á tilveru sinni í kjölfar alvarlegs vinnuslyss. Ýmislegt bendir til þess að dauða hans hafi borið að með saknæmum hætti. Hinn látni skuldaði hættulegum manni í undirheimunum og var hundeltur.
Heimspekineminn Indriði Thorarensen heillast af ungri konu sem hann spjallar við í flugvél á leiðinni heim til Íslands frá París. Hann veit ekki hvað konan heitir og missir sjónar á henni eftir að vélin lendir í Keflavík. Indriði býst við að gleyma henni en þess í stað fær hann þráhyggju og fer að leita konunnar, sem hann veit nánast ekkert um.
Hörður kemst að því að hinn látni hringdi í Neyðarlínuna skömmu áður en hann var myrtur. Svo virðist sem hann hafi orðið vitni að alvarlegri árás á unga konu, jafnvel morði. Hörður vill kanna þetta nánar en yfirmaður hans fullyrðir að símtalið hafi verið misskilningur eða gabb, lögreglan hafi þegar kannað málið og engrar konu sé saknað.
Hörður er ekki sáttur og ákveður að óhlýðnast yfirboðara sínum. Hann er þrjóskur sem naut og vanur að fara sínar eigin leiðir.
Dagbók Kidda klaufa 19 – Sull og bull
5.990 kr.Húsið á ströndinni er pínulítið og hitinn svakalegur. Enn verra er að stórfjölskyldan er öll saman í fríi. Það getur ekki komið neitt gott út úr því.
Þetta er uppskrift að stórslysi – en uppskriftir koma einmitt hér við sögu, því kjötbollurnar hennar ömmu eru orðnar frægar og uppskriftin er algjört leyndarmál. Það hlýtur að sjóða upp úr þessum kraumandi fjölskyldupotti.
Stoner
3.490 kr.A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value – of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history – and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile
3.190 kr.Bonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile, which is also included in this volume, Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways.
The Poetic Edda
3.490 kr.‘She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish.’
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress’s Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related.
The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the lovely goddesses and the giants who are their enemies walk beside the heroic Helgi, Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer, Brynhild the shield-maiden, and the implacable Gudrun. New in this revised translation are the quest-poem The Lay of Svipdag and The Waking of Angantyr, in which a girl faces down her dead father to retrieve his sword. Comic, tragic, instructive, grandiose, witty and profound, the poems of the Edda have influenced artists from Wagner to Tolkien and a new generation of video-game and film makers.
On Tyranny
3.490 kr.In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances.
Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny.
The Mighty Red
3.490 kr.In the Red River Valley of North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place.
Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to his problems. Kismet can’t imagine her future, but she will settle for fulfilling his. During a clumsy proposal, Kismet misses her chance to say ‘no’, and so the die is cast.
Meanwhile Crystal, Kismet’s mother, hauls sugar beets for Gary’s wealthy family. On her nightly truck drives from the farm, Crystal frets over what the future might hold – both for herself, and her daughter.
Starkly beautiful and vividly written, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendour, from one of our greatest living writers.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Original price was: 3.490 kr..2.792 kr.Current price is: 2.792 kr..On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.
Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
On Freedom
3.690 kr.A brilliant exploration of freedom – what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival – by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.
Freedom is the great Western commitment, but we have lost sight of what it means – and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: we think we’re free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government interference. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from, as freedom to – the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.
Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers and his own experiences, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes – the habits of mind – that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions but also the role of institutions. Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity and grace.
Snyder’s book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom; On Freedom helps us see exactly what we’re fighting for. It is a thrilling intellectual journey and a tour de force of political philosophy.
The Quiet Mother
4.390 kr.A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavík home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad’s phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth – for her and for himself.
As Konrad digs into the woman’s past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder – and to shadows from Konrad’s own family history.
The Quiet Mother is a masterful blend of human tragedy and relentless suspense, where every discovery comes at a cost. Arnaldur Indridason once again proves why he is the voice of Nordic Noir, delivering a harrowing tale of guilt and redemption.