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Ótrúlega skynugar skepnur
4.690 kr.Tova Sullivan er nýorðin ekkja og farin að vinna við ræstingar í Sædýrasafni Sowell Bay. Það hefur alltaf átt vel við hana að hafa nóg fyrir stafni, ekki síst þegar erfiðleikar steðja að. Eins og þegar Eric, átján ára gamall sonur hennar, hvarf á dularfullan hátt þrjátíu árum fyrr.
Sædýrasafnið er fullt af furðuskepnum en sú sem vekur mesta athygli Tovu er geðstirður kyrrahafskolkrabbi að nafni Marcellus. Smám saman myndast sérstæð vinátta með ræstingakonunni og kolkrabbanum, sem reynist luma á dýrmætum upplýsingum um hvarf Erics. En tíminn til að miðla þeim er að renna út.
Ótrúlega skynugar skepnur er hnyttin og heillandi saga um uppgjör við fortíðina sem farið hefur sigurför um heiminn; hún hefur verið þýdd á yfir þrjátíu tungumál og selst í meira en tveimur milljónum eintaka.
Nanna Brynhildur Þórsdóttir þýddi.
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.
The Book of Disappearance
4.390 kr.Alaa is haunted by his grandmother”s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa’s neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.
That search, and Ariel’s reactions to it, intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. Between the stories of Alaa and Ariel are the people of Jaffa and Tel Aviv – café patrons, radio commentators, flower-cutters – against whose ordinary lives these fissures and questions play out.
