Örblíða
4.690 kr.Í Örblíðu leiðir Úlfar Þormóðsson lesandann í undarlegt ferðalag, sprottið upp úr hugleiðingum af ýmsu tagi og leit að manni sem sífellt hverfur. Skyndilega er veruleika sögumanns raskað. Dregið er fram í dagsljósið áratugagamalt mál. Úlfar rifjar upp málavexti og afhjúpar ýmsar fullyrðingar sem varpað hefur verið fram.
Leit hans að upplýsingum í stjórnkerfinu tekur á sig kostulega mynd sem minnir á Kafka. Í miðjum klíðum verður hann fyrir þeim harmi að missa unnustu sína til þrjátíu ára – og þung sorgin verður förunautur hans.
Við áframhaldandi leit fýkur sannleikurinn út í veður og vind. Og sögumaðurinn öðlast frið í sálu sinni.
Einstök bók um völundarhús mannheima eftir einn merkilegasta höfund þjóðarinnar.
Úlfar Þormóðsson hefur sent frá á þriðja tug bóka af ýmsu tagi sem vakið hafa mikla athygli.
Margrét Lára – Ástríða fyrir leiknum
7.790 kr.Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir er meðal fremstu íþróttamanna sem Ísland hefur alið. Hún er markahæsti landsliðsmaður Íslands í knattspyrnu frá upphafi og spilaði í sterkustu deildum heims. Hér segir Margrét Lára sögu sína og deilir reynslu sinni og góðum ráðum. Hún gerir ferilinn upp og segir á einlægan hátt frá sigrum og mótlæti.
Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir er meðal fremstu íþróttamanna sem Ísland hefur alið. Hún er markahæsti landsliðsmaður Íslands í knattspyrnu frá upphafi en hún lék sinn fyrsta A-landsleik 16 ára gömul og sinn fyrsta meistaraflokksleik með ÍBV þegar hún var einungis 14 ára. Margrét Lára hélt í atvinnumennsku þar sem hún spilaði í sterkustu deildunum og með einu besta félagsliði heims. Á ferli sínum varð hún landsmeistari í þremur löndum, var kjörin íþróttamaður ársins, spilaði á stórmótum með landsliðinu, varð þrívegis markahæst í Meistaradeildinni og fjórum sinnum útnefnd knattspyrnukona ársins. Margrét Lára skoraði með sinni fyrstu og síðustu snertingu í leik með íslenska landsliðinu og ruddi brautina fyrir ungar knattspyrnukonur, ekki bara á Íslandi heldur um allan heim.
Í bókinni segir Margrét Lára sögu sína og deilir reynslu sinni og góðum ráðum. Hún gerir ferilinn upp og segir á einlægan hátt frá sigrunum og mótlætinu, samherjum og mótherjum, lífinu eftir fótboltann og síðast en ekki síst ástríðunni fyrir leiknum.
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
8.290 kr.Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful.
From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat’s Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
As she explores her past, Atwood reveals more and more about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.
Bread of Angels
4.390 kr.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.
The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as Horses and Easter, ‘Dancing Barefoot’ and ‘Because the Night’.
She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.
As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again – the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.
In Farthest Seas
3.690 kr.Upon the death of her husband, Innocenzo Monti, Lalla Romano sought to distil the essence of their long life together. The result was In Farthest Seas: a piercingly intimate retelling of the first four years and final four months of their relationship, built from shard-like moments of connection and revelation.
With precise artistry, Romano braids together seemingly minor details – the expressiveness of Innocenzo’s hands, the beauty of his face in sleep, a fleeting instance of pallor – that come to reveal the barest truths of life and death. Unsparing yet tender, minimal yet monumental, In Farthest Seas is a startlingly moving elegy for a great love by a vital Italian writer.
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Mamma og ég
Original price was: 7.490 kr..4.590 kr.Current price is: 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.
Dorgað í djúpi hugans
8.290 kr.Allt sem þú ert er frá öðrum komið. Lögfræðingurinn Skúli Thoroddsen pælir í meiningu þessara orða og fiskar upp lifandi atvik bernsku- og æskuáranna á myndrænan hátt hvort heldur sem krakki á barnaheimili, unglingur í brúarvinnu eða sveitastrákur hjá Konunni í dalnum og dætrunum sjö. Þá segir Skúli frá fyrstu ástinni og fer út í heim auk þess að bregða upp lifandi myndum af ættmennum sínum ýmsum og samferðarfólki. Ljóðrænar lýsingar hans á náttúru landsins, tónlist og skáldskap tilverunnar gera þessa bók að sannkölluðum yndislestri.
Athyglisverð uppvaxtarsaga um veröld sem var á sjötta og sjöunda áratug síðustu aldar.
A Thousand Feasts
3.990 kr.For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.
These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.
This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.
On Writing
3.690 kr.Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King – with a new foreword, ON JOY, by Stephen King.
Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.
King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 – and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it – fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.
Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland
4.690 kr.From the bestselling author of Burial Rites comes an inspirational memoir about her travels in Iceland, an extraordinary country that has forged a nation of storytellers. When she was seventeen years old, Hannah Kent travelled to Iceland from Australia. She’d never seen snow before, didn’t speak a word of Icelandic.
All she knew was that she wanted to have an experience – to soak up something of the world. Soon she found herself isolated in a remote part of Iceland in a dark winter. It was a gruelling experience, but she quickly fell in love with the country: with its brutally beautiful landscapes and with its people.
On returning home, with images of Iceland’s towering glaciers and windswept tundras in her dreams, Hannah began to write. Now, as a mother and a wife, she looks back to that extraordinary year in Iceland.
Indignity: A Life Reimagined
4.690 kr.There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation we call it dignity
When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions.
Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan Ypi: glamorous newlyweds while World War II raged.
What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, as we are transported to the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. While investigating the truth about her family, Ypi grapples with uncertainty.
Who is the real Leman Ypi? What made her move to Tirana as a young woman and marry a socialist who sympathized with the Popular Front while his father led a collaborationist government? And why was she smiling in the winter of 1941?
By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity explores what it means to survive in an age of extremes. It reveals the fragility of truth, both personal and political, and the cost of decisions made against the tide of history. Through secret police reports of communist spies, court depositions, and Ypi s memories of her grandmother, we move between present and past, archive and imagination, fact and fiction.
Ultimately, she asks, what do we really know about the people closest to us? And with what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations?