Maðurinn í skiltinu
4.390 kr.Þegar Ramón býðst að vakta risastórt auglýsingaskilti Coca-Cola-fyrirtækisins við þjóðveg í hverfinu grípur hann tækifærið og ákveður að setjast að í skiltinu í leit að merkingu hlutanna. Ákvörðun hans kemur illa við nágrannana sem finnst hann ógna heiðri hverfisins, ekki síður en heimilislausa fólkið sem flytur í nágrennið, og fyrr en varir taka þeir málin í sínar hendur.
Skáldsaga byggð á sannsögulegum atburði eftir chileska rithöfundinn Maríu José Ferrada. Maðurinn í skiltinu er önnur skáldsaga hennar en sú fyrsta, Kramp, kom út hjá Angústúru árið 2023. Ferrada hefur í þrígang unnið til verðlauna chileska menningarmálaráðuneytisins.
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.
Draugamandarínur
4.590 kr.Hýðinu er flett af ávextinum. Fyrir innan leynist ýmislegt: matur, myrkur, minningar. Fyrir utan: vökult auga.
Draugamandarínur fjallar um hvað það merkir að gefa af sér. Verkið skoðar, í gegnum hrylling, smáatriði og rytma, þá athöfn sem fer fram þegar matar er neytt. Líkaminn skipar mikilvægan sess í textanum, horft er inn á við eins og í gegnum röntgengeisla og þar má meðal annars sjá sársauka, hungur og aldinkjöt.
„Birgitta dregur tjöldin frá, tendrar ljós.“
– Brynja Hjálmsdóttir
Stúlka með fálka
4.990 kr.Stúlka með fálka er sjálfstætt framhald bókanna Stúlku með fingur, Stúlku með maga og Stúlku með höfuð þar sem Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir sagnfræðingur og rithöfundur rekur eigin ættarsögu og ævi. Hér stendur stúlkan á sjötugu og lítur um öxl, sögutíminn frá miðjum níunda tug síðustu aldar til dagsins í dag. Staldrað er við ritverkin og atvik úr einkalífi, ferðalög, vini, fjölskyldu og aðra sem haft hafa áhrif á þennan einstaka höfund.
Þetta er samtímasaga full af visku og vangaveltum um lífið og tilveruna. Sem fyrr er Þórunn hispurslaus og opinská og hlífir sér hvergi – frásögnin er fyndin og gáskafull en um leið blandin trega og söknuði.
Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir er einn fjölhæfasti rithöfundur okkar, jafnvíg á skáldskap og fræði og hefur fengist við flestar greinar bókmennta. Hún hefur hlotið margvíslegar viðurkenningar fyrir verk sín og meðal annars verið tilnefnd til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna og Bókmenntaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs.
Jötunsteinn
4.790 kr.Jötunsteinn, steyptur hellusteinn sem til stendur að leggja í gangstétt, þýtur í átt að bílrúðu. Fyrir innan hana situr stórtækur verktaki. Úti stendur bugaður arkitekt. Tíminn silast áfram sekúndubrot fyrir sekúndubrot.
Þrjátíu ár eru síðan Andri Snær steig fram á ritvöllinn og skipaði sér í hóp eftirtektarverðustu höfunda landsins. Í þessari kröftugu nóvellu er Jötunsteini kastað inn í heita umræðu um fegurð í borg sem er smám saman að hjúpast svartri klæðningu og gráu þverliggjandi bárujárni. Sagan hefur þegar komið út á dönsku, ítölsku og ensku og hvarvetna hlotið frábærar viðtökur.
Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week
3.990 kr.Iceland punches well above its weight in the world of music, producing global icons like Björk, Sigur Rós, Of Monsters and Men, and Laufey, while at the same time nurturing a vibrant local scene. This book explores how Iceland’s unique social habits, institutions and everyday practices contribute to its thriving music culture. Tracing the development of Icelandic popular music since the rock ’n’ roll era, it examines key influences shaping the scene, from Reykjavík’s musicians to national institutions like radio and concert venues.
With engaging explanations of sociological factors, the book sheds light on why Iceland has become a powerhouse in music. An illuminating journey through Iceland’s music history, this is a celebration of the artistry and cultural forces behind its global impact.
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.
Vaim
3.990 kr.Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjørgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, while sleeping on his boat, he hears a familiar voice: unexpectedly, it is Eline, who wants to come home to Vaim with him.
She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing. Vaim, Jon Fosse’s first novel since he received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the story of this triangle, a novel about little boats and big boats, love and death, passive men and an incredibly determined woman. And all, of course, was strange…
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?
Maggie
4.690 kr.A man and a woman walk into a restaurant.
The woman hopes they will order the best wine on the menu.
Instead, her husband tells her he is having an affair with a woman called Maggie.When her chest starts to ache, the woman goes to a doctor who tells her the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak – but – cancer. She decides to call the tumour Maggie and begins to strike up a conversation with it.
In turns wildly funny and devastatingly tender, Maggie takes place during a pause -between divorce and marriage, sickness and health, the unknown and the status quo.
In reaction to the unfolding chaos, the heartbroken woman creates ‘A Guide to My Husband: A User’s Manual’ filled with a thousand facts for the real Maggie about the man they both love. In the tradition of Nora Ephron’s writing on heartbreak and womanhood, Maggie is set to be the divorce novel of our age.
The World Goes On
3.690 kr.A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.
In The World Goes On , a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell (‘ for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me ‘). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: ‘Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…’
Satantango
3.690 kr.In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm.
But when the charismatic Irimias – long-thought dead – returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.
The Last Wolf & Herman
3.490 kr.In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a dreary Berlin bar.
In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest’s last ‘noxious beasts.’ Herman begins with great zeal, although in time he switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game… In Herman II, the same events are related from the perspective of strange visitors to the region, a group of hyper-sexualised aristocrats who interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman…
These intense, perfect novellas, full of Krasznhorkai’s signature sense of foreboding and dark irony, are perfect examples of his craft.
Vélhundurinn Depill
5.590 kr.Vélhundurinn Depill er fjórða sagan í verðlaunaflokknum um Pétur og Stefaníu, alveg skuggalega skemmtileg og ætluð lesendum á aldrinum 6–10 ára. Bókin er ríkulega myndskreytt og með sérvöldu auðlæsilegu letri.
Nornin, vinkona Péturs og Stefaníu, hefur misst hann Lubba sinn og er alveg óhuggandi. Í ofanálag er eitthvað óhugnanlegt á seyði í garðinum sem virðist tengjast gröf Lubba. Hver er að róta í moldinni? Það skyldi þó ekki vera að ljúfi hundurinn Lubbi sé genginn aftur – hauslaus í ofanálag?
Álfareiðin
6.390 kr.Menntskælingurinn Líneik er spennt að búa til hlaðvarpsþátt í valáfanga í fjölmiðlafræði en þykir alveg glatað að hann eigi að vera um álfa. Og ekki nóg með það heldur neyðist hún til að vinna í hóp og situr uppi með bæði skrýtnu stelpuna og mesta slugsann í bekknum.
Perla og Jónki leyna þó á sér og fyrr en varir eru þau búin að grafa upp dularfullt þorp á Suðurlandi sem tengist álfum og virðist eiga sér blóðuga sögu. Þegar þríeykið mætir á staðinn rennur fljótt upp fyrir þeim að þorpsbúarnir hafa margt og miður fallegt að fela – og það getur reynst stórhættulegt að spyrja rangra spurninga.