Stag Dance
4.390 kr.Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
The Beauty Of The Husband
4.690 kr.Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 ‘tangos’ of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson’s own unique sensibility.
The unnamed narrator – sometimes ‘I’, sometimes ‘the wife’ – speaks of the man she calls only ‘the husband’, illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects – beauty, desire, love, betrayal – with freshness and devastating power.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN‘S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
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4.390 kr.In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called ‘G’, into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover ‘Sad’ (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where G’s mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply powerful picaresque verse invites readers on an extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.
A Philosophy of Walking
3.690 kr.In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us.
Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.
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Félagsland
Original price was: 5.190 kr..3.490 kr.Current price is: 3.490 kr..Félagsland er fyrsta ljóðabók Völu Hauks, handhafa Ljóðstafs Jóns úr Vör árið 2024. Í bókinni eru tæp fimmtíu ljóð og rauður þráður hennar eru félagsheimili landsins fyrr og nú, hlutverk þeirra og þýðing, andblær og ásýnd. Ljósmyndir af þeim vettvangi gefa tóninn.
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
3.990 kr.Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that ”Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,” meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in kind. As colonial legacies linger today, what are the ways in which we can disentangle literary translation from its roots in imperial violence? 24 writers and translators from across the world share their ideas and practices for disrupting and decolonising translation.
”For the past few years, I”ve written and rewritten this line in journals and proposals: literary translation is a tool to make more vivid the relationships between Afro-descendent people in the Americas and around the world.”
– Layla Benitez James
Millileikur
4.690 kr.Tveir bræður, þrjár ástkonur, sorg, átök og uppgjör: Millileikur er einstaklega áhrifamikil saga um ást, missi og órofa tilfinningabönd eftir hina írsku Sally Rooney, sem hefur vakið heimsathygli fyrir skáldsögur sínar.
Pétur er ríflega þrítugur lögmaður og lifir erilsömu lífi í hringiðu borgarinnar. Hann skemmtir sér grimmt og gistir oft hjá Naomi, sem er ung og villt, en er líka í nánu sambandi við Sylvíu, fyrrverandi unnustu sína sem hann getur ekki hætt að elska. Ívan er tíu árum yngri, var áður upprennandi skáksnillingur en hefur staðnað og líf hans er stefnulaust. Hann er feiminn einfari en þegar hann hittir Margréti, konu á fertugsaldri með erfitt hjónaband að baki, bresta allar varnir og milli þeirra kviknar eldheit ást.
Faðir þessara ólíku bræðra er nýdáinn og sorgin ristir inn í kviku; báðir eru næmir og viðkvæmir, taugarnar þandar. Ástandið leiðir til óbærilegrar spennu, samskiptin eru erfið og hvor um sig þarf að gera upp líf sitt og langanir.
Bókin rauk beint á topp metsölulista The Sunday Times, hefur setið á listum mánuðum saman og var víða kjörin besta bók ársins 2024. Bjarni Jónsson þýddi.
