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The Covenant of Water
3.990 kr.At the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch – known as Big Ammachi – will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship. A shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today.
Imbued with humour, deep emotion and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.
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Napalm in the Heart
Original price was: 4.990 kr..3.493 kr.Current price is: 3.493 kr.. 
I Saw Ramallah
3.490 kr.Is there any other country in the world that so perplexes you with its names? Last time I was clear and things were clear. Now I am ambiguous and vague. Everything is ambiguous and vague.
A fierce and moving memoir on returning to Palestine, the meaning of exile and homeland, and the habitual place and status of a person, from the late Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti.
Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, Barghouti spent thirty years in exile: shuttling between the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest.
As he returns to Ramallah for the first time since the Israeli occupation, crossing a wooden bridge over the Jordan River, Barghouti is unable to recognise the city of his youth. He discovers how the joy of return and reunion is accompanied by a feeling of insurmountable loss.
A tour de force of memory, reflection and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is deeply humane and is essential to any balanced understanding of today’s Middle East.

Enter Ghost
3.490 kr.After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.
When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men – yet as opening night draws closer, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life she once knew starts to give way to the exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.

Wrong Norma
4.390 kr.As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like the New Yorker and the Paris Review.
Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word “idea”, the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked.
That’s why I’ve called them “wrong”.

Glerþræðirnir
5.490 kr.Í Glerþráðunum er atvikum og persónum úr sögu lands og þjóðar teflt fram gegn lífsskilyrðum nútímans. Hér er þó ekki tekið mið af stórviðburðum Íslandssögunnar heldur sagðar hversdagssögur af mönnum og málleysingjum, af þeirri fundvísi sem einkennir fyrri verk höfundar.
Vitnisburðir ljósmæðra og flakkara um lífið í landinu eru raktir; sagt er frá hundafeiti í lækningaskyni, óútskýrðum fjárráðum Guðríðar Símonardóttur og óslökkvandi Danahatri Gísla Brynjúlfssonar; útskýrt er hvers vegna kvenlíkaminn var um skeið helsti keppinautur Guðs um sálarheill karlmannsins og hvernig endurreisn íslenskunnar átti sér stað á hjónasæng Sveinbjarnar Egilssonar og Helgu Benediktsdóttur Gröndal. Og er þá aðeins fátt eitt nefnt.
Í þjóðlífsþáttum rituðum af skáldlegu innsæi er fortíð og nútíð fléttað saman, af samkennd með því fólki sem á undan fór — og með skírskotun til þeirra sem nú eru á dögum.


Spunatíð
4.590 kr.Í þessari nýju ljóðabók er spunnið úr þjóðlegum þráðum en einnig ferskum og framandi svo úr verður fjölbreyttur vefur þar sem fléttast saman frjáls póesía og háttbundin ljóð. Hjartsláttur lífsins er aldrei langt undan. Spunatíð er ellefta frumsamda ljóðabók Aðalsteins Ásbergs, en ljóð hans hafa verið þýdd og gefin út á norsku, ensku, þýsku, frönsku og rússnesku.

Kallfæri
4.590 kr.Hér er ort af stakti snilld sem birtist í einstakri myndvísi, næmum skilningi og hárfínni ádeilu á samtímann. Lífsspeki kallast á við lífsgleði. Meitlaður skáldskapur einsog hann gerist bestur. Kallfæri er tíunda bók Guðrúnar, sem hefur hlotið Ljóðstaf Jóns úr Vör og Íslensku þýðingarverðlaunin fyrir verk sín.





The Coocoo’s Nest
10.890 kr.Þau Lucas Keller og Íris Ann Sigurðardóttir hafa undanfarið unnið hörðum höndum að nýrri matreiðslubók þar sem þau gera upp tíu farsæl ár sem eigendur veitingastaðarins, The Coocoo’s Nest sem var staðsett í gömlu Verbúðunum út á Granda. Aðdáendur geta nú framreitt himneskan bröns í heimahúsi að hætti Coocoo’s Nest. Í bókinni má finna flest allar uppskriftirnar sem glöddu landann í heilan áratug. Lucas eldaði sig í gegnum Coocoo’s árin og Íris Ann myndaði allt ferlið en úr því varð glæsileg og eiguleg matreiðslubók fyrir sanna matgæðinga.





