Falling Animals
3.490 kr.On an isolated, windswept beach, a pale figure sits serenely against a sand dune staring out to sea. His hands are folded neatly in his lap and there is a faint smile on his otherwise lifeless face. After months of fruitless investigation, the nameless stranger is buried in an unmarked grave, but the mystery of his life and death lingers on, drawing the nearby villagers into its wake. From strandings to shipwrecks, it is not the first time that strangeness has washed up on their shores.
As a chorus of voices come together to unravel the story of one man, alone on a beach, a crosshatched portrait begins to emerge, threaded by lives both true and imagined, real and surreal, past and present.
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
990 kr.A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages.
The Shapeshifter’s Daughter
4.690 kr.Nothing, on earth or below it, freezes faster than the worthless heart.
Before she was a hideous monster, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard, realm of the gods, by Odin the Allfather, Hel’s fate as the terrible goddess of death is sealed. Half beauty, half crone, she has reigned for aeons in the starless darkness of Niflheim, grimly welcoming the most pitiful of death’s travellers to her ice-locked prison. Until one day a memory shifts, and she is forced to seek out the sun in Midgard, where humans have made their home.
Faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Helen Firth makes the impulsive decision to return to Orkney after forty years to make peace with her past. Under the wintering solstice sun, she reconnects with the ungainly but affable Thorfinn Coffin, who helps her address the real reason she has returned to the islands: to die.
As Helen draws closer to death and ever closer to Thorfinn, Hel in turn is intrigued by Helen. She, too, has a past to confront and a lesson to learn: that perhaps who she believes herself to be isn’t who she really is.
A powerful reimagining of the Norse myth of Hel, The Shapeshifter’s Daughter celebrates the joy of reclaiming our stories.
The Faber Book of Science
990 kr.The Faber Book of Science, edited by John Carey, charts the progress of science through its luminaries and heroes, from Leonardo da Vinci to Richard Dawkins, via Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Jean Henri Fabre and many, many others.
To Ruhleben – And Back
2.990 kr.Geoffrey Pyke was one of the 20th century’s most brilliant eccentrics-mad genius, financial wizard, impoverished hermit. But in 1914, Pyke was just another Cambridge teenager. He pitched a wild notion to a London newspaper editor: Why not make him their war correspondent in Berlin? The editor called the boy’s bluff, and Pyke made his way across Europe on little more than a false passport, a pretty good German accent, and sheer chutzpah.
And so begins an odyssey into the heart of wartime Berlin, and a plunge into a harrowing year of solitary confinement and then imprisonment at Ruhleben, an internment camp that is now considered the model for Germany’s concentration camps. After an escape and a perilous dash to the Dutch border, Pyke returned home at the age of twenty to write To Rubleben – And Back.
Lost to obscurity for over eighty years, his extraordinary book is a college student’s sharp-tongued travelogue, a sober meditation on imprisonment and escape… and, as Pyke intended, a ripping yarn.
“The war will produce few books of more absorbing interest than this one.” -The New York Times
“A very fine story of a great and perilous adventure.” -The Times (London)
This Little Art
4.390 kr.An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter’s translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification.
She writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original.
Our World: Iceland
3.890 kr.Góðan daginn! Spend a day in Iceland eating hafragautur for breakfast, visiting the farm in the countryside, and driving past volcanoes and the northern lights. Even learn words in Icelandic with pronunciation guides throughout the story.
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