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Sagittarius
Original price was: 3.490 kr..2.967 kr.Current price is: 2.967 kr..At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a city with her daughter and son-in-law, yet soon grows restless with her new life. When she strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Scilla, her world suddenly seems rich with potential and before long, the pair are planning to open an art gallery together. After a series of afternoons spent over coffee granitas in local bars, however, it quickly becomes apparent that there is more to Scilla than meets the eye. Class, in all its manifestations and aspirations, is at the heart of Sagittarius , as misplaced confidence and ambition gone awry leads inexorably towards the downfall of a family.
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Napalm in the Heart
Original price was: 4.990 kr..2.545 kr.Current price is: 2.545 kr.. - -15%
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
Original price was: 4.690 kr..3.987 kr.Current price is: 3.987 kr..The definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world’s greatest living poetsNot much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships, her queerness, her family, her death – all these details are hazy, lost to time. Likewise, of the nine scrolls of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed during her life on the island of Lebsos, only one poem has survived complete – the rest are fragments.
In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson has collected and translated all the surviving fragments of Sappho’s verse. With the original Greek parallel to each poem, Carson leaves brackets and white space to signal the gaps where text has been lost to time – allowing us to imagine the poems as they were written. With her singular style and extensive translator’s notes, Carson pieces together the voice of Sappho. And through her, Sappho’s reflections on love and desire, suitors and rivals, goddesses and daughters, echo through millennia.
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Family Lexicon
Original price was: 3.690 kr..3.137 kr.Current price is: 3.137 kr..‘The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.’
Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family.
The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia – yet he cannot be without her. Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini’s Italy, the Levi household must become not only a home – but a stronghold against fascism.
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
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Enter Ghost
Original price was: 3.490 kr..2.967 kr.Current price is: 2.967 kr..After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.
When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men – yet as opening night draws closer, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life she once knew starts to give way to the exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.
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Wrong Norma
Original price was: 4.390 kr..3.732 kr.Current price is: 3.732 kr..As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like the New Yorker and the Paris Review.
Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word “idea”, the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked.
That’s why I’ve called them “wrong”.
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The Empusium
Original price was: 4.390 kr..3.732 kr.Current price is: 3.732 kr..In September 1913, a young tuberculosis-stricken Pole checks into Wilhelm Opitz’s Gentlemen’s Health Resort in the Silesian mountains. Each evening, residents indulge in local, hallucinogenic liqueur and engage in lively debates on topics like monarchy vs. democracy, women’s equality, and war vs. peace. A hundred years after ‘The Magic Mountain’, Olga Tokarczuk explores Thomas Mann’s territory, masterfully weaving horror, comedy, and folklore into her narrative.
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The Coocoo’s Nest
Original price was: 10.890 kr..9.257 kr.Current price is: 9.257 kr..Þau Lucas Keller og Íris Ann Sigurðardóttir hafa undanfarið unnið hörðum höndum að nýrri matreiðslubók þar sem þau gera upp tíu farsæl ár sem eigendur veitingastaðarins, The Coocoo’s Nest sem var staðsett í gömlu Verbúðunum út á Granda. Aðdáendur geta nú framreitt himneskan bröns í heimahúsi að hætti Coocoo’s Nest. Í bókinni má finna flest allar uppskriftirnar sem glöddu landann í heilan áratug. Lucas eldaði sig í gegnum Coocoo’s árin og Íris Ann myndaði allt ferlið en úr því varð glæsileg og eiguleg matreiðslubók fyrir sanna matgæðinga.
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Horses
Original price was: 4.590 kr..3.902 kr.Current price is: 3.902 kr..The Icelandic horse has endured much during its millennium of service to a hard people in a cold land. Blazing trails through lava fields, shuttling between far-flung fjords, starved, drowned and even brought back from the dead. Here we see Iceland’s hardiest helper from every angle, the same beast who first set hoof on Iceland’s shores in the 9th century, through stories free from all the hype and schmaltz of the tourist brochures.
With their first book, Birds, Hjörleifur Hjartarson and Rán Flygenring dazzled us with Iceland’s fascinating feathered friends. Now they’re back in the saddle with their unique take on Iceland’s iconic equine.
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