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You Like It Darker
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The Life Impossible
Original price was: 5.490 kr..3.843 kr.Current price is: 3.843 kr..When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her.
She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed.
But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
Volcano
4.590 kr.On an impromptu bring-your-kid-to-work day, Kaktus goes on a bus trip with tour guide and mother extraordinaire Brá. Together with a group of eccentric sightseers they venture on a classic day tour of waterfalls, furry horses and postcard perfect landscapes. But their day takes an unexpected twist when Kaktus spots something glowing red hot in the distance…
Award-winning author and illustrator Rán Flygenring is a true volcano aficionado. After trekking to the eruptions on Reykjanes peninsula nearly two dozen times, she now brings to life the dazzling volcanic spectacles she experienced there in the thrilling and sometimes perilous events of this book.
The Adventures of Mundi the Puffin
2.590 kr.Things really get interesting when Mundi the blind puffin joins the family!
The two dogs Fly and Spot, love to play with their new friend but the same cannot be said for the cat of the household, who constantly tries to spoil the fun. Together this band of friends gets into all kinds of exciting adventures.
This is the author’s third book and is dedicated to the memory of Mundi the blind puffin and his thousands of social media friends from all around the world. And it’s thanks to the talents of Iðunn Arna that these colorful characters come to life through her wonderful illustrations.
Elves
5.990 kr.Neighbor inexplicably come into money? Baby suddenly an un holyterror? Home a wreck after Christmas? Appliances constantly breaking down? Birthmarks shaped like magical runes in the family? Got a friend no one else can see?
Icelandic elves are a rare breed among elfkind for the mysteriously profound bond they share with real-world Icelanders. Here we see the Icelandic elf in a new light as well as the fraught relations between the hidden nation and humans since Iceland’s settlement, including underworld deals, blood-soaked holiday parties, radical eco-activism, forbidden love in the beyond and the wildly heroic exploits of shepherds and milkmaids.
Time and again Hjörleifur Hjartarson and Rán Flygenring have joined forces to examine the wonders of Icelandic nature and culture. They gave us high-flying antics with Birds and got back in the saddle for Horses. Now they peek behind the curtain into the hidden world of Elves.
Birds
4.590 kr.Warning!
This is not what you’d call a great field guide for identifying birds. Its illustrations are badly drawn, and its text is full of biases and affectations. You should keep that in mind while reading. But if you’re interested in provocative stories about Icelandic birds’ inclination for endangerment, penchant for pageantry, and addiction to amatory adventures – not to mention all their quirks of character and personal peccadillos – well then: this is the book for you.
Fun-loving Hjörleifur Hjartarson and Rán Flygenring give readers a bird’s–eye view of the most prominent characteristics of every Icelandic bird in word and image, and, thankfully, never take themselves too seriously in the process. The result is a unique, unusual, but nevertheless informative encyclopedia of Icelandic birds.
Hjörleifur Hjartarson has a B.Ed. in education and has also worked as an author, translator, and musician alongside his job as a teacher. He’s written a variety of exhibition notes and explanatory texts for both museums and theatres. It was one such exhibition project that lead him into the world of Icelandic birds, which have fluttered around him ever since.
Rán Flygenring is an illustrator and designer. Her projects have been varied: she’s illustrated books and blogs, doodled on walls and stamps and created unique images for events ranging from beer festivals to science conferences. Rán calls no one place home and would, without a doubt, be classified as a migratory bird.
The Years
3.490 kr.Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and collective, and a new genre – the collective autobiography – in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.
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This Strange Eventful History
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Minor Detail
3.990 kr.Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history.
A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.
Kairos
3.490 kr.Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.
