
History of Violence
3.490 kr.I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment.
He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o’clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me.
He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began. History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, class, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.

Who Killed My Father
3.490 kr.In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship.
Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty. It unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude – those who have their expectations, hopes and passions crushed by a society which gives them little thought.

Road to October 7 : A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism
4.690 kr.In Road to October 7, Erik Skare argues that Palestinian Islamism is far more complex and dynamic than generally assumed. The phenomenon has continuously developed through disputes between moderates and hardliners. These struggles have largely been settled by external drivers – intra-Palestinian competition, Israeli violence and repression, or shifts in the regional power balance.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
3.990 kr.Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called ‘ethnic cleansing’. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population.

Vikuspá
4.390 kr.Vikuspá geymir áttatíu og sex sögur á einföldu máli. Í stuttum og aðgengilegum frásögnum eru ólíkar atvinnugreinar kynntar. Hér er leikið með þá íslensku þjóðtrú að það geti haft áhrif á hvað barn taki sér fyrir hendur í framtíðinni á hvaða vikudegi það fæðist. Sögupersónur takast á við þrautir og sigra í leit að hinum gullna meðalveg, milli frama og lukku. Sögurnar varpa ljósi á fegurð mannflórunnar og mikilvægi þess að þroskast og þróast í takt við tímann.
Vikuspá er sjálfstætt framhald af Árstíðum og Dagatali sem hafa notið mikilla vinsælda og verið kenndar víða á Íslandi sem og erlendis. Textarnir eru fjölbreyttir hvað varðar efnistök, form og stíl og flokkaðir eftir getustigi í samráði við sérfræðinga. Þar að auki fylgir viðauki með margskonar fróðleik um land og þjóð. Bókin nýtist jafnt við kennslu sem og til yndislestrar.

Suspicion
3.690 kr.Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime, using her connections to the local yakuza to get by. When she meets Shirakawa Fukutaro, a rich widower desperate for companionship and unaware of her shady past, the two hit it off and are soon married. But their newlywed bliss is suddenly cut short: one rainy July evening, their car veers off course, plunges into the harbour and Fukutaro is pulled beneath the waves.
Suspected of murder and labelled a femme fatale, Kumako is hounded by the press, but stays firm, repeatedly proclaiming her own innocence. As pressure from dogged journalists mounts, the tide of public opinion is rising against her. But when a scrupulous defence lawyer takes on her case, doubt begins to creep in . . .
In this intricate, psychological noir, masterfully translated into English for the first time, Seicho Matsumoto draws out the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases and our deepest desires.

A Month in the Country
3.490 kr.A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years.

The Red Tenda of Bologna
1.290 kr.‘It’s an improbable city, Bologna – like one you might walk through after you have died.’
A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.

Dagskammtar
3.490 kr.Dagskammtar samanstendur af stuttum textum í lausu máli. Margir textanna tengjast ákveðnum atvikum, en aðrir eru fremur hugleiðingar eða þankabrot sem finna sér leið inn í hversdaginn. Líta má á textana sem eins konar dagbókarfærslur þar sem „ég“ frásagnarinnar miðlar reynslu sinni af atvikum og fyrirbærum daganna.
„Í dag er búið að vera mistur og rigning, en nú virðist vera að rofa til. Það er alveg logn og ég er ein á gangi á Sólvallagötunni. Nokkrum sólargeislum tekst að brjótast gegnum mistrið um leið og það hellist yfir mig skyndilegt regn. Það er þá sem ég sé regnbogann. Hann spennir marglitan bogann yfir nesið með annan endann í Faxaflóanum og hinn í Skerjafirðinum. Hann er rétt hjá mér, kannski í nokkur hundruð metra fjarlægð. Ósjálfrátt herði ég gönguna. Áður en ég veit af er ég farin að hlaupa.“

Sjáðu, sjáðu mig. Það er eina leiðin til að elska mig.
5.190 kr.Hér missir kona rödd og fær hana aftur. Mögnuð ljóðabók sem hefur verið ófáanleg lengi.
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir er alvöru skáld. Hún horfir fast í augun á lesandanum og orðar sterkar tilfinningar; ást, heift, gleði og sorg, af oddhvassri blíðu og lífsþorsta, sýnir náttúru landsins á síkvikan hátt og lítur aldrei undan.

Storm
3.690 kr.A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land.
With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world.

Bónus Poetry
2.490 kr.Bónus Poetry takes the reader on a mythological journey through the aisles of an undisclosed Bónus Supermarket branch, and is based on Dante’s Divina Commedia. Starting in “Paradiso” (the fruit and vegetable section), we travel through “Inferno” (meat and frozen goods) before finally ending up in the “Purgatorio” (cleaning products).
The book was initially published by Bónus Supermarkets in Iceland and sold at supermarket counters on eternal “special offer”. The author signed the same contract as every other producer: “If the consumer is harmed by the product, the producer is liable.” Bónus Poetry became the biggest selling poetry volume in the history of Iceland. No consumers have yet been harmed but please call the service desk in case of headaches, dizziness or general bursts of poem disorder.

Mr. Awkward Show Present: Mr. Poser
7.490 kr.Anton Lyngdal sem gengur undir listamannanafninu Mr. Awkward show gefur út ljósmyndabók um Mr. Poser.
Mr. Poser er tískukóngur og sérlegur áhugamaður um vegglistasenuna á Íslandi. Hann á sér uppáhalds vegglistamann sem er einn sá stærsti og afkastamesti í senunni hér á landi, þ.e. Opes_vs_Vato. Í bókinni ferðast Mr. Poser um Höfuðborgarsvæðið og stillir sér upp í sínum bestu klæðum við vegglistaverk eftir Opes_vs_Vato.
Mr. Poser er einn af karakterum Antons sem vaknar til lífsins fyrir framan myndavélina, enda líður Mr. Poser best í sviðsljósinu og er handviss um að hann ætti heima á tískusýningunum í París.

Áttaskil – Ljóð og lausavísur
4.890 kr.Hér birtast ljóð og lausavísur úr fórum skáldsins og kvæðakonunnar góðkunnu, en þar eru náttúruljóð í fyrirrúmi þótt ýmislegt annað komi við sögu. Í eftirmála segir Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson frá Vaðbrekku m.a.: Þegar ljóð hennar eru lesin er eins og landið Ísland, með öllum sínum dyntum, veðurfarssveiflum og skapbrigðum hafi valið hana til að túlka sjónarmið sín.

Kína frá fyrri öld – China Before
8.490 kr.Unnur Guðjónsdóttir rak um árabil ferðaskrifstofu sem sérhæfði sig í ferðum til Kína. Hún tók snemma ástfóstri við þetta stóra og mikla land, með „teljandi“ íbúum, og árunum 1983 og 1992 tók hún þar mikið magn mynda, sem finna má í þessari einstöku bók, sem sýnir okkur Kína frá síðustu öld, en margt hefur nú breyst þar og því nauðsynlegt að varðveita gamla tímann eins og kostur er.





