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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
3.490 kr.With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland.
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Richard Hart Bread
7.990 kr.Richard Hart Bread is a comprehensive guide to the craft of baking bread, featuring 60 recipes filled with all the expertise and experience of the founder of Copenhagen’s Hart Bageri and former head baker at San Francisco’s Tartine.
Richard Hart Bread is THE guide to the intuitive art of baking bread. Including bread making techniques, creating a starter, and breads that use a range of grains from rich rye and wheat loaves to barley, polenta loaves. As well you can explore flatbreads, focaccias and ciabatta and bakery favourites like bagels, English muffins and burger buns.
By learning how to see, taste, touch and adapt, readers can find their own way to making truly wonderful bread – from blistering sourdoughs to delicious beer loaves and more. Rather than focusing obsessively on precise formulas, Richard teaches both.
Sagan af Sigur Rós
5.990 kr.Hljómsveitin Sigur Rós sló í gegn á Íslandi er platan Ágætis byrjun kom út í júní árið 1999. Ekki löngu síðar var Sigur Rós orðin heimsfræg hljómsveit og er það enn.
Saga Sigur Rósar hófst hins vegar fimm árum áður en Ágætis byrjun leit dagsins ljós og lengi vel benti fátt til þess að hljómsveitin myndi ná nokkru flugi. Í þessari bók er fjallað um sögu Sigur Rósar frá upphafi og fram til þess tíma er Ágætis byrjun slær rækilega í gegn út um allan heim.
The Story of Sigur Rós
5.990 kr.The band Sigur Rós had a breakthrough in Iceland when the band’s second album, Ágætis byrjun, was released in June 1999. The album was highly praised and sales exceeded all expectations. The reputation of Ágætis byrjun spread quickly, and foreign journalists and music fans around the world paid a lot of attention to Sigur Rós following the release, as the album ended up being a global hit. Here, the history of the band Sigur Rós will be told from its founding in 1994 until the time that Ágætis byrjun becomes a hit in Iceland and, not long thereafter, around the whole world.
The Iliad
4.390 kr.“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” ―Ange Mlinko, London Review of Books
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.
When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.
The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world―the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters―both human and divine.
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
Snyrtistofan
3.490 kr.Þegar faraldur herjar á borgina neyðist sögumaður til þess að breyta snyrtistofunni sinni í Biðstofu dauðans. Hann reynir að sinna sjúklingunum ásamt skrautfiskum stofunnar en allt virðist umbreytingum háð og snýst upp í andhverfu sína.
Mario Bellatin er talinn einn áhugaverðasti samtímahöfundur Rómönsku Ameríku
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Kvæði 90
1.490 kr.Kvæði 90, sjötta ljóðabók Kristjáns Karlssonar, er kvæðaflokkur sem ber heitið Engey í þröngum glugga, og vísar það til þess sviðs sem á er horft.
Kvæðin mynda sterka heild þar sem uppistaðan er útsýni frá Reykjavík og grennd. Efnið er sett fram í litsterkum myndum og út frá þeim hrannast minningar fjölbreyttrar ævi sem einnig stíga fram í myndum og líkingum.
Hvað úr hverju, smám saman eða allt í einu muntu verða til, tvö forvitin augu
sem koma í ljós einhvern góðviðrisdag við sjó
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marglitir veggsteinar týndra borga
liggja á víð og dreif í bláum sandi
og ambergris, grár klumpur mör búrhvalsins og
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festi í ilmvötn virði milljóna grotnar
undir bakka en uppi yfir hring-
sólar mávurinn vængjaður óstillandi grun
(Þrjú fyrstu erindin úr kvæðinu Brim.)