For Art & For Life
2.490 kr.Few artists’ letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh’s. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became The Starry Night, the letters in this selection paint an intense personal narrative of his artistic development and creative process across the years. They reveal a man of great spiritual and emotional depths who – in his own words – did everything ‘for art and for life itself’.
There Are Rivers in the Sky
3.490 kr.In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. When his brilliant memory earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, the world opens up far beyond the slums and across the seas.
In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon she and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people.
In 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage – until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.
A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops.
Mammoth
3.990 kr.Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work – all in pursuit of life in the raw.
This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar’s wild voice.
The Possession
3.190 kr.‘The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city – the whole world – with a person you may never have met.’ These words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman’s need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved’s life. Ernaux’s writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.
The Wall
3.490 kr.A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival.
This is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one’s name, and simultaneously a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world.
Gleði skipbrotanna
4.790 kr.Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) var eitt kunnasta ljóðskáld Ítala á liðinni öld. Með nýju og byltingarkenndu ljóðmáli tókst honum að tjá með einstökum hætti lífsreynslu fólks á umbrotatímum í Evrópu. Stíll hans er einfaldur, laus við mælskubrögð og ljóðin oftar en ekki stutt og hnitmiðuð, hlaðin merkingu með vísunum í ýmsar áttir.
Hér birtist í fyrsta sinn á íslensku úrval ljóða úr þekktasta verki hans Lallegria nær 100 árum eftir birtingu þess á frummálinu.
Nautnir
4.590 kr.Ljóðabálkur eftir Mario Bellatin.
Birta Ósmann Þórhallsdóttir útlagði á íslensku.
95 bls.
Nautnir eftir Mario Bellatin er kröftugur og stingandi ljóðabálkur þar sem hráblautur og gelaður raunveruleiki og yfirgengileg þráhyggja fyrir hreinleika renna saman á súrrealískan hátt í heimi þar sem hinir dauðu ráða ríkjum og ungur heimspekingur þráir að eignast heilagan hund.
Mario Bellatin er fæddur í Mexíkó árið 1960. Hann er talinn einn áhugaverðasti samtímahöfundur Rómönsku-Ameríku um þessar mundir. Bókina prýða einnig ljósmyndir eftir listamanninn Önnu Maggý.Bókin er riso-prentuð og handsaumauð á prentverkstæði Skriðu, eftir eftirspurn til þess að sporna gegn offramleiðslu og sóun.
Family Happiness
2.490 kr.‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn’t it?’ How does love die? This question lies at the heart of Tolstoy’s desperately sad novella. It tells the story of seventeen-year-old Masha who, despite their differences, falls passionately in love with an older man, and marries him. Soon, however, the gap between them becomes unbridgeable.
Stan the Killer
2.490 kr.‘Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming down from a clear sky on to the little barrows piled high with fruit and vegetables.’ In these three tales of deception, set in and around Paris, Simenon’s celebrated detective uncovers chilling truths about the depths of the human instinct for self-preservation.
Beauty
2.490 kr.‘People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look.’From Warhol’s romantic relationships to his thoughts on interior design, these candid, highly entertaining musings – on love, sex, beauty, work and space – give an intimate glimpse into the mind of one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century culture.