Her Body & Other Parties
3.490 kr.In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.
A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store’s dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
Year of the Monkey
3.690 kr.Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs–including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger’s words, “Anything is possible: after all, it’s the Year of the Monkey.” For Smith–inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing–the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life’s gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.
Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world.
Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
3.690 kr.Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there, as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed.
Until age 11, Herzog did not even know of the existence of cinema. His interest in films began at age 15, but since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory. He started to travel on foot. He made his first phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. The wildly productive working life that followed—spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction—was an adventure as grand and otherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great and self-invented lives of our time, and a singular literary masterpiece that will enthrall fans old and new alike. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.
How To Art
4.690 kr.What is art, where do I find it, and once I’m in front of it, what am I supposed to think about it?
Kate Bryan is a self-confessed art addict who has worked with art for over twenty years. But before she studied art history at university, she’d been into a gallery just twice in her life and had no idea she was entering an elitist world.
Now, she’s on a mission to help everybody come to art. Like playing or listening to music, or cooking and eating great food, reading or watching films, making art or looking at other people’s deserves to be an enriching part of all our lives.
So here, in How to Art, is a nifty way to take art on your own terms. From where it is to what it is, to tips on how to actually enjoy really famous artworks like the Mona Lisa, to how to own art and make art at home, through to vital advice for making a career as an artist and even how to make your dog more cultural, How to Art gives art to everyone, and makes it fun.
Laced throughout with original artworks by the very down-to-earth artist David Shrigley.
The Red Book of Farewells
4.890 kr.Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening in a series of farewells—to her mother, to the idealism of youth, to friends and lovers, and finally to her grown daughter. The novel embeds readers in a delirious Finland, where art and communist politics are hopelessly intertwined, and where queer love, still a crime, thrives in underground bars. But then one morning in 2002, on a remote island off the coast of Finland, the narrator Pirkko Saisio informs her publisher that she’s accidentally deleted her latest manuscript, The Red Book of Farewells. Playful and mysterious, The Red Book of Farewells is a work that stoically embraces the small revolutions of moving on.
What Time Is It?
4.390 kr.“Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call ‘in the meantime.’” — John Berger
The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously published for the first time in English by Notting Hill Editions. Berger died before it was completed, but the text has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and friend Selçuk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti.
What Time Is It? is a profound and playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Berger, the great art critic and Man Booker Prize–winning author, reflects on what time has come to mean to us in modern life. Our perception of time assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of time, yet time is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. We talk of time “saved” in a hundred household appliances; time, like money, is exchanged for the content it lacks. Berger posits the idea that time can lengthen lifetimes once we seize the present moment. “What-is-to-come, what-is-to-be-gained empties what-is.”
Fávitinn (seinna bindi)
1.290 kr.Maðurinn í hettusláinu var ungur, tuttugu og sex eða tuttugu og sjö ára, rúmlega meðalmaður á hæð, með afar ljóst og mikið hár, kinnfiskasoginn með þunnt, niðurmjótt og hérumbil hvítt skegg. Augu hans voru stór, blá og íhugul, í augnaráði hans var eitthvað blíðlegt en um leið þungt, eitthvað af þeim einkennilega svip sem nægir til að giska á strax við fyrstu sýn að viðkomandi sé haldinn niðurfallssýki…
Á hlákublautum morgni í nóvember kemur Myshkin fursti til Pétursborgar, inn í iðandi atburðarás ásta, svika, undirferla og glæpa. Hann er einlægur og flekklaus maður, og Dostojevskí sýnir hér hvað gerist þegar slík persóna kemur inn í samfélag breyskra manna.
Fávitinn sem kom út í Rússlandi árið 1868 er með frægustu skáldsögum heimsbókmenntanna, ástríðufull og spennandi. Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir þýddi bókina úr rússnesku og hlaut fyrir þá þýðingu Menningarverðlaun DV fyrir árið 1986.
12 konur
14.990 kr.12 konur er óvenjuleg bók á íslenzkum bókamarkaði og mun vekja óskipta athygli bókmenntafólks.
Sögurnar í 12 konum spegla mynd nútímakonunnar frá jafnmörgum hliðum, frá bernsku til fullorðinsára, bók um konur eftir konu.
12 konur er fyrsta bók Svövu Jakobsdóttur.
Mamma og ég (kilja)
4.590 kr.Mamma og ég er saga mæðginanna Kolbeins Þorsteinssonar og Ástu Sigurðardóttur rithöfundar. Ásta var þjóðþekkt sem rithöfundur og nánast goðsögn vegna skrifa sinna.
Einkalíf hennar var þó enginn dans á rósum og undirstrikar að sitt hvað er gæfa eða gjörvileiki. Ásta glímdi við óreglu lengst af ævi sinni og barðist við þá djöfla sem fylgja fíkninni. Börnin voru tekin af henni og send í fóstur. Barnsfaðir hennar lét sig börnin litlu varða.
Kolbeinn segir söguna frá sjónarhóli barnsins og lýsir þeim mikla sársauka sem fylgir því að vera móðurlaus í umsjón barnaverndarnefndar og vandalausra og horfa upp á mömmu sína hverfa inn í myrkur stjórnlausrar neyslu.
