Sjáið okkur dansa
990 kr.Aisha er augasteinn foreldra sinna, marokkóska landeigandans Amins og Mathilde sem kemur frá Alsace í Frakklandi og hefur fylgt manni sínum til þessa framandi lands. Aisha stefnir á að verða læknir og ekkert truflar það, ekki einu sinni þegar hún verður ástfangin af ungum hagfræðingi sem lítur út og hugsar eins og Karl Marx. Aðrir í fjölskyldunni glíma við flóknari vandamál í lífi og ástum enda miklir umbrotatímar í Marokkó á sjöunda áratug 20. aldar. Vestrænir hippar flæða inn í landið og mikil ólga er í þjóðlífinu vegna misskiptingar, harðstjórnar og togstreitu milli gamalla og nýrra gilda.
Sjáið okkur dansa er annað bindið í þríleik Leïlu Slimani sem hún byggir á ættarsögu sinni en fyrsta bókin, Í landi annarra, kom út á íslensku árið 2021 og var afar vel tekið.
Friðrik Rafnsson þýddi.
Í landi annarra
990 kr.Í landi annarra er hjartnæm og hrífandi skáldsaga sem dregur upp ljóslifandi mynd af marokkósku samfélagi á árum sjálfstæðisbaráttunnar. Þetta er fyrsta bókin í þríleik sem byggður er á ættarsögu höfundarins.
Örlög Mathilde ráðast í lok síðari heimsstyrjaldarinnar þegar frönsk herdeild nýlendubúa hefur viðdvöl í þorpinu hennar í Alsace. Myndarlegur liðsforingi frá Marokkó fangar hug hennar og hjarta og þegar stríðinu lýkur fylgir hún honum til heimalandsins. Með ástina og hugrekkið að vopni tekst hún á við framandi samfélag í hrjóstrugu landi þar sem ungu hjónin mæta erfiðleikum og fordómum – bæði af hendi innfæddra og frönsku nýlenduherranna.
Leïla Slimani ólst upp í Marokkó en býr í Frakklandi. Hún sló í gegn með Barnagælu, magnaðri glæpaskáldsögu sem hlaut hin virtu Goncourt-verðlaun, varð metsölubók og hefur komið út víða um heim, meðal annars hér á landi.
Friðrik Rafnsson þýddi.
Dagar mínir í Morisaki-bókabúðinni
4.790 kr.Þegar Takako missir í einu vetfangi kærastann, vinnuna og trúna á sjálfa sig, býðst henni óvænt skjól hjá sérvitringnum frænda sínum í lítilli fornbókabúð í Tókýó. Jimbocho-hverfið iðar af lífi, ágeng kryddangan er í loftinu og neonljós borgarinnar flökta stöðugt en í Morisaki-bókabúðinni opnast annar heimur – kyrrlátur, hlýr og fullur af sögum. Þar hefst heillandi ferðalag sem á eftir að umbreyta lífi Takako.
Dagar mínir í Morisaki-bókabúðinni er seiðandi saga um vináttu sem sprettur á ólíklegustu stöðum, sérkennilega fastagesti og ómótstæðilega japanska menningu.
Satoshi Yagisawa hlaut verðskuldaða athygli fyrir þessa hrífandi sögu sem hefur komið út víða um heim og var kvikmynduð í Japan.
The Oresteia
3.990 kr.In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king’s decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra’s regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father’s death; and in The Eumenides, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society.
The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford in Penguin Classics.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Bluets
3.990 kr.Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of ‘pillow book’ about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.
Much like Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.
Strange Buildings
4.390 kr.The addictive mystery taking the world by storm, from the author of The Times Bestseller Strange Pictures
Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret.
A lonely hut in the woods.
A hidden chamber.
A mysterious shrine.
A home in flames.
A nightmarish prison…
Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle.
Look closely… and you’ll see that everything is connected.
All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won’t want to believe it.
Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu’s dark mysteries.
Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, so far.
Wuthering Heights
4.690 kr.Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere …
As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.
Every One Still Here
3.490 kr.A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.