
Varurð
3.790 kr.Varurð er sjötta bók höfundar. Fimm ljóðanna hafa þegar hlotið verðlaun og viðurkenningar. Í bókinni býðst lesendum að reima á sig skóna og halda með höfundi í ljóðför um oddhvassar lendur óttans; allt frá upptökum hans að óumflýjanlegum átökunum við hann. Nestuð áræði, einlægni og varurð er áfangastaðurinn langþráð frelsið, friðurinn og fögnuðurinn sem bíður þeirra sem fletta af sér öllu því sem þeir töldu sig vera og kasta sér kviknaktir út í ógnvekjandi eldskírnina.

Einurð
3.790 kr.Einurð er sjöunda bók höfundar. Lesanda er hér boðið í ljóðför um hugarheim barns – og síðar fullorðins einstaklings – sem ávarpar móður sína allt frá þeim degi og þeirri nóttu sem eitt líf slokknar og annað kviknar. Þar sem form og formleysi mætast. Þar sem hughrif, kenndir og geðhrif móta einstaklinginn á viðkvæmasta skeiði hans – í móðurlífinu. Lokaljóð bókarinnar, sem er í senn meginstef og niðurstaða verksins, hlaut fyrstu verðlaun í árlegri ljóðasamkeppni Júlíönu – hátíð sögu og bóka 2023.
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The Book of the New Sun – Volume 2: Sword and Citadel
Original price was: 3.690 kr..1.845 kr.Current price is: 1.845 kr..An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. The torturer’s apprentice, Severian, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners, is now the Lictor of Thrax, a city far distant from his home. But it is not long before Severian must flee this city, too, and journey again into the world.
Embattled by friends and enemies alike, pursued by monstrous creatures, the one-time torturer’s apprentice must overcome hitherto unimagined perils, as he moves closer to fulfilling his ultimate destiny. This edition contains the concluding two volumes of this four-volume novel, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch.

Jasmine Tea
2.490 kr.But how sweet a fruit the ‘suppose’ must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green: a fruit that hides the tart within the sweet.
In this haunting collection of stories, a young man’s obsession leads to tragedy and a woman’s bitterness poisons a family’s legacy. In delicate, piercing prose, Chang captures a world of quiet cruelties and calamitous desires in pre-revolutionary China.


Coal
2.490 kr.I am Black because I come from the earth’s insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.
Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplicity. Mournful, celebratory, politically conscious, this early collection is a testament to Lorde’s beloved and hugely influential lyric voice, which faithfully captures the complex interiority of the self. These timeless poems resonate down the years.

Nóvella – Ævintýrið
3.790 kr.Í þessari bók eru birtar tvær sígildar sögur eftir Goethe sem notið hafa mikillar hylli meðal bókmenntaunnenda allt frá því þær komu fyrst fyrir almenningssjónir fyrir tveimur öldum.
Þetta eru sögurnar Nóvella, um söngelska drenginn með flautuna og ljónið og tigrísdýrið sem sleppa úr búrum sínum hjá mannfólkinu, og Ævintýrið, um grænu slönguna og fögru liljuna þar sem vafurlogar og konungar koma við sögu.
Tvær töfrandi frásagnir, samdar af mikilli list.
Jón Bjarni Atlason annaðist útgáfuna, íslenskaði Nóvellu og ritaði eftirmála.
Kristján Árnason og Þórarinn Kristjánsson íslenskuðu Ævintýrið.
Þýski menningarjöfurinn Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) var skáld, leikskáld, skáldsagnahöfundur, náttúruvísindamaður, leikhússtjóri, stjórnmálamaður, gagnrýnandi og listamaður. Meðal frægustu verka hans er leikritið Fást (Faust) og skáldsögurnar Raunir Werthers unga (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) og Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.

Ég heyrði ugluna kalla á mig
4.390 kr.Í Kingcome-byggð við norðvesturströnd Kanada hefur fólk búið öldum saman í sátt og samlyndi við náttúruna. En nútíminn hefur hafið innreið sína með tilheyrandi vandamálum og aldagamalt veiðimannasamfélagið á undir högg að sækja. Ungur prestur sest að í byggðinni og í samvistum við innfædda öðlast hann nýjan skilning á lífinu, ekki síst mætti kærleikans.

Fyrsti bjórsopinn og fleiri smálegar lífsnautnir
4.390 kr.Þessi litla perla franska rithöfundarins Philippes Delerm sló hressilega í gegn þegar hún kom út í Frakklandi og hefur nú selst í meira en milljón eintökum þar í landi. Í stuttum köflum beinir höfundur sjónum að upplifunum hversdagsins sem veita gleði og lífsfyllingu, hvort sem það er fyrsti bjórsopinn, ilmur af eplum eða lestur á bók eftir Agöthu Christie. Hrífandi frásögnin einkennist af barnslegri forvitni og fyndnum athugasemdum og minnir okkur á að njóta og meta allt hið smáa sem auðgar lífið.
Bókin hlaut frönsku Grandgousier-bókmenntaverðlaunin en þau eru veitt fyrir bækur sem lofa glaðlyndi og lífsins lystisemd

Baron Bagge
2.490 kr.Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing… Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso, Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke, triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.

Tales from the Heart : True Stories from my Childhood
2.490 kr.‘I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.’
Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé. These affecting vignettes follow Condé’s early encounters with love, grief, friendship, as she navigates the pernicious legacy of slavery and colonialism in her home of Guadeloupe and as a student in Paris.

I am a Bird from Paradise
2.490 kr.May I remember always when
Your glance in secrecy met mine,
And in my face your love was like
A visibly reflected sign.
From the greatest and most popular of all Persian poets, a selection celebrating love, beauty and the profound connection between the human and the divine.

A Moment of War
2.490 kr.In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; ‘that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that idiot belief in luck’.

A Confirmed Bachelor
2.490 kr.Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons.
Arthur Schnitzler’s tumultuous psychodrama remains as startling now as it did on first publication.

The Price of Freedom
2.490 kr.Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best stories, focusing on human voices from the religious fracture that forever unhinged two newly independent nations. Powerful, piercing and deeply moving, Manto’s works are key to understanding this bloody chapter in South Asian history.

Lady L.
2.490 kr.‘Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale’
In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and hopeless sycophants, Lady L. is celebrating her eightieth birthday. But as the guests disperse, she feels the undeniable pull of a mysterious pavilion in the lush grounds, and the terrible secret she buried there many years ago .

The Broken Nest
2.490 kr.Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories – ‘The Broken Nest’ and ‘Dead or Alive’ – he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of two perfect Bengali households. No-one understands each other; everything is misconstrued; all is lost.



