Exteriors
3.490 kr.Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux’s books – the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.
Notes from an Island
3.990 kr.For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island’s austere charms. Notes from an Island, offers both a memoir of, and homage to, this beloved island home. Tove’s spare prose, and Tuulikki’s subtle washes and aquatints, combine to form a work of meditative beauty.
This edition includes the first UK publication of Tove’s acclaimed 1961 essay/prose poem, The Island.
On Writing
3.490 kr.A collection of previously unpublished letters from America’s cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski’s reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life to.
Piercing, unsentimental and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with the author’s trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos and intimacy. In the previously unpublished letters to editors, friends and fellow writers collected here, Bukowski is brutally frank about the drudgery of work and uncompromising when it comes to the absurdities of life and of art.
Mynd örlaganna
1.290 kr.Isabel Allende hefur nú skrifað sjálfstætt framhald hinnar geysivinsælu sögu, Dóttir gæfunnar, og myndar þá þessi bók miðsöguna í þríleik sem endar á Húsi andanna, fyrstu bók Allende. Sú sem hér segir frá er Aurora del Valle, barnabarn Elísu Sommers og hins kínverska læknis Taos Chi’en. Sagan gerist bæði í San Francisco og Chile og við sögu koma meðal annarra undurfögur en ógæfusöm móðir Auroru, gerspilltur og lífsleiður faðir hennar, stórbrotin föðuramma og í fyllingu tímans eiginmaður sem býr yfir leyndarmáli og er þá fátt eitt talið af litríkum persónum sem fylla hér blaðsíðurnar eins og í fyrri bókum höfundar. Hér er sögð margþætt saga af stórbrotnum örlögum, ósviknum ástríðum og spaugilegum atvikum með samblandi af heitri samúð og stríðnisbliki í auga. Kolbrún Sveinsdóttir þýddi.
KRANT – 1. tölublað
990 kr.Krant.is er einföld og aðgengileg bloggsíða sem allir geta tekið þátt í. Á síðunni verða engar auglýsingar, engir óþarfa flipar, ekkert kommenntakerfi og engir persónulegir aðgangar, aðeins sköpunargleði. Fólk er beðið um að senda færslur á tölvupóstnetfangið okkar en færslurnar mega vera hvað sem er: skoðanapistlar, ljósmyndir, skapandi skrif, hugleiðingar, skemmtilegar staðreyndir, spurningaþrautir, menningargagnrýni eða hvað sem höfundum dettur í hug. Færslurnar geta verið eins langar og stuttar og höfundur vill, þær mega vera nafnlausar, undir dulnefni eða undir eiginnafni. Eina ritskoðun af okkar hálfu er ef um hatursorðræðu sé að ræða.
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth
4.390 kr.A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.
These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.
We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.
Great Big Beautiful Life
4.690 kr.When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a Serious Publication.
The catch? Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud, Hayden Anderson, is sure of the same thing.
The proposal? A one-month trial period to unearth the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th Century, after which she’ll choose who’ll tell her story.
The problem? Margaret is only giving each of them tantalising pieces. Pieces they can’t put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story – just like the tale Margaret’s spinning – could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad … depending on who’s telling it.
Steering the Craft
4.390 kr.Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Steering the Craft is Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the essentials of a writer’s craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how – and why – to write. This handbook is an accessible and profound guide to the craft of writing and editing.
Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Drawing on the global canon, Le Guin offers her inimitably witty commentary and incisive dissection, developing into an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. No other writing guide offers such a comprehensive, experienced and kind approach to “steering the craft” as a writing crew.
Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer’s shelf.
Death of a Diplomat
4.690 kr.A remote Icelandic island. A diplomatic dinner party. And a murderer in the midst.
When the deputy Canadian ambassador dies suddenly at a dinner party, attended by the great and the good from business, culture and politics, suspicion falls on everybody present, but particularly on the victim’s boss, the Canadian ambassador. Jane, the ambassador’s wife, knows that she has to solve the murder if she is to save her husband, and her marriage. But Jane knows better than anyone that, when it comes to protecting scandalous secrets, there are no lengths to which people won’t go. So soon the question becomes: can she track down the killer before they strike again?
Quantum Listening
2.990 kr.What is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagine listening beyond the edge of your own imagination?
In response to the anti-war movements of the 1960s, pioneering musician and composer Pauline Oliveros began to expand the way she made music, experimenting with meditation, movement and activism in her compositions. Fascinated by the role that sound and consciousness play in our daily lives, Oliveros developed a series of Sonic Meditations that would eventually lead to the creation of Deep Listening – a practice for healing open to all, rooted in her musicianship.
Quantum Listening is a manifesto for listening as activism. Oliveros’ futuristic vision, blending technology and spirituality, shows how Deep Listening is the foundation for a radically transformed social matrix: one in which compassion and peace form the basis for our actions in the world.