Forest of Noise
3.490 kr.Barely 30 years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current assault on Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed his house, pulverising a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety.
Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems.
Uncannily clear, direct and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime. Here are directives for what to do in an air raid and lyrics about the poet’s wife, singing to his children to distract them. Huddled in the dark, Abu Toha remembers his grandfather’s oranges and his daughter’s joy in eating them.
Here are poems to introduce readers to his extended family, some of them no longer with us. Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely liveable occupation, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination — even as it is watched live. This is an extraordinary and arrestingly whimsical book, that brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering.
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
4.390 kr.In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned. Their understanding had been that China’s brutal one-child policy was leading to hundreds of abandoned girls, desperate for the care of adopted parents.
What they didn’t know – and what award-winning journalist Barbara Demick uncovered in 2007, while working as a correspondent in Beijing – was that their daughter had been snatched from her beloved family and her identical twin. Under China’s one-child policy hundreds of poor Chinese were giving up their children due to soaring fines and threats of violence. More sinister still, international demand for adoptees was sky-rocketing, and local officials were forcibly seizing children and trafficking them to orphanages, who were selling them abroad.
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove tells the gripping story of separated twins, their respective fates in China and the USA, and Barbara Demick’s role in reuniting them against huge odds. Painting a rich portrait of China’s history and culture, it asks questions about the roots, impact and consequences of China’s one-child policy, the ethics of international adoption, and, ultimately, the assumptions and narratives we hold about the quality of lives lived in the East and the West.
ERODE
4.390 kr.ERODE is Biswamit Dwibedy’s fourth full-length collection of poetry and brings together his first out-of-print book, Ozalid, and the expansion and continuation of that work into Erode. As a single collection, these sequences unfold in movements of erasure and collage. What emerges is a poetics of accumulation and subtraction, a method of excavation that reveals the personal buried within the communal, the lyric submerged in the residual. If erasure is a form of attention, then ERODE listens acutely—to language, to silence, to the faint signal of the other. With a sensibility both spare and lush, ERODE traces the shifting terrain of meaning, where fragments flare into wholeness and then dissolve again.
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Huldukonan
Original price was: 8.390 kr..4.990 kr.Current price is: 4.990 kr..Konurnar í Lohr fjölskyldunni skilja ekki að Sigvaldi þeirra, með alla sína augljósu mannkosti, hafi aldrei gengið út. Ennfremur fá þær ekki skilið þá fráleitu ákvörðun hans að gerast einsetumaður í eyðivík. Þær eru raunar hættar að hnýsast í hagi Sigvalda, því í hvert skipti verður augnaráð hans átakanlega tregafullt.
Dag einn birtist Sigvaldi á dyraþrepi móður sinnar með mánaðargamla stúlku í fanginu og neitar að svara því hver sé móðir barnsins. Konurnar í fjölskyldunni hefja sína eigin rannsókn á málinu og smám saman hrannast sönnunargögnin upp: saga Lohr ættarinnar, þjóðsögurnar í Dýrleifarvík, leyndardómur um týnt barn og móður sem hvarf, undarlegir draumar, óvenjuleg hegðun Sigvalda og dulmagn hamranna í hlíðinni.
Brandur flytur út
3.990 kr.Klukkan er fjögur að morgni í kyrrlátri sveit í Svíþjóð. Frá húsinu hans Péturs heyrast skelfileg óhljóð. Kötturinn Brandur hefur fengið nýtt rúm og er vaknaður fyrir allar aldir til að gera morgunæfingarnar. Pétur getur alls ekki sofið fyrir látunum og setur því Brandi úrslitakosti sem eiga eftir að hafa ófyrirséðar afleiðingar.
A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder
3.490 kr.In A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, written by contemporary Icelandic poet Brynja Hjálmsdóttir and translated by Rachel Britton, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems, however, is always shaking itself up, leaping between the extreme and the daily, the gross and the delicious, between being scared and being scary. These surreal, visceral, and somehow polite poems explore what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice and form and power, no matter how strange. The apocalyptic utopia we arrive at in this book—The Whore’s City—is a perfect model to move to in one’s head: feminist, funny, odd, and a little disgusting, all towards transformation.