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.
Spegill þjóðar
14.690 kr.Gunnar er enda einn áhrifamesti ljósmyndari okkar og margar fréttamynda hans hafa mótað hugmyndir okkar um sögu lands og þjóðar. Ferillinn spannar hálfa öld, frá því hann hóf störf á Tímanum 16 ára árið 1966. Síðar var hann á Vísi, DV og Fréttablaðinu. Og fjölmörg augnablikin sem Gunnar festi á filmu eru greypt í þjóðarsálina.Gunnar velur hér á annað hundrað minnisstæðustu mynda sinna og Sigmundur Ernir Rúnarsson skráir söguna á bakvið hverja þeirra – úr verður einstakt og áhrifamikið sjónarspil; fréttaviðburðir, stjórnmál, íþróttir, náttúra, listir og skemmtanir, innlend og útlend stórmenni og okkar minnstu bræður og systur – allt á þetta sína fulltrúa í myndasafni GVA.- -28%
Álfareiðin
Original price was: 6.390 kr..4.590 kr.Current price is: 4.590 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.