Huldufólk
4.990 kr.Ísland – 2061. Veður hefur snarversnað í kjölfar loftslagsbreytinga, ríkisstjórnin stjórnar einungis litlum hluta landsins og glæpagengi ráða ríkjum hvarvetna. Eftir að þjófar stela óþekktum verðmætum frá stórfyrirtækjum neyða þeir ungan tæknimann til að hjálpa þeim að flýja frá Reykjavík. Æsispennandi saga úr framtíðardystopiu á Íslandi.
Gunnar Birgisson, höfundur sögunnar, er menntaður sem lögfræðingur í Bandaríkjunum og hefur starfað um árabil sem lögmaður í Washington, DC. Meðal annara verka hans er myndasaga sem gerist á Indlandi.
Fannar G. Gilbertsson, teiknari sögunnar, er íslenskur listamaður og höfundur. Hann er teiknari myndasögunnar Landverðirnir og er einnig höfundur og teiknari myndasögunnar Gen-01.
H-gítar píanó próekt
8.490 kr.10 lög fyrir léttan leik á flygil og sjöstrengja gítar eftir Gímaldin.
Bakgrunnurinn
5.990 kr.Ljóðabókin Bakgrunnurinn fjallar um umbreytingaskeið í lífi einstaklingsins og náttúrunnar. Ljóðin lýsa því sem við hverfum frá, skiljum eftir okkur og um leið því sem er væntanlegt. Ljóðin fjalla um árstíðaskiptin, persónulegan og almennan missi. Þau fást við dauðleika okkar, glötuð tækifæri, ástina, tengslalöngun okkar og tengslaskort, vorið sem kemur og fer en snýr þó aftur í ljóðunum.
Persepólis II
4.390 kr.Seinni hlutinn af ógleymanlegri uppvaxtarsögu íranska höfundarins Marjane Satrapi (f. 1969), sem fór sigurför um heiminn þegar hún kom fyrst út. Spaugilegar hversdagssenur í lífi höfundar og harmleikur þjóðar fléttast listilega saman í þessari margrómuðu teiknimyndasögu sem lætur engan ósnortinn.
Jamaica Inn
3.690 kr.She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever. On a bitter November evening, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to seek revenge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn.
But the crumbling inn is no safe haven, and Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her domineering husband Joss. In fear of her life, and disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss’s younger brother, Mary is soon plunged into a brutal world of smuggling and murder in which she can trust no one – not even herself.
The Eleventh Hour
4.390 kr.Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy during national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight’s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire.
In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.
These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home India, England and America and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life.
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
A Seventh Man
3.690 kr.First published in 1975, this finely wrought investigation remains as urgent as ever, presenting the life of those who have travelled to live and work in Europe. Art critic, novelist, and artist John Berger brings humanity and a voice to those silenced in the political debate about who does and doesn’t belong. Why does the Western world look to migrant labourers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker – the material circumstances and the inner experience – and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life but at its centre.
From A to X: A Story in Letters
3.690 kr.From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds transcendent hope in the pain, fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.