Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
3.490 kr.With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by ‘one of Europe’s major humanist writers’ (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination – and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk’s native Poland.
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Richard Hart Bread
7.990 kr.Richard Hart Bread is a comprehensive guide to the craft of baking bread, featuring 60 recipes filled with all the expertise and experience of the founder of Copenhagen’s Hart Bageri and former head baker at San Francisco’s Tartine.
Richard Hart Bread is THE guide to the intuitive art of baking bread. Including bread making techniques, creating a starter, and breads that use a range of grains from rich rye and wheat loaves to barley, polenta loaves. As well you can explore flatbreads, focaccias and ciabatta and bakery favourites like bagels, English muffins and burger buns.
By learning how to see, taste, touch and adapt, readers can find their own way to making truly wonderful bread – from blistering sourdoughs to delicious beer loaves and more. Rather than focusing obsessively on precise formulas, Richard teaches both.
Sagan af Sigur Rós
5.990 kr.Hljómsveitin Sigur Rós sló í gegn á Íslandi er platan Ágætis byrjun kom út í júní árið 1999. Ekki löngu síðar var Sigur Rós orðin heimsfræg hljómsveit og er það enn.
Saga Sigur Rósar hófst hins vegar fimm árum áður en Ágætis byrjun leit dagsins ljós og lengi vel benti fátt til þess að hljómsveitin myndi ná nokkru flugi. Í þessari bók er fjallað um sögu Sigur Rósar frá upphafi og fram til þess tíma er Ágætis byrjun slær rækilega í gegn út um allan heim.
The Story of Sigur Rós
5.990 kr.The band Sigur Rós had a breakthrough in Iceland when the band’s second album, Ágætis byrjun, was released in June 1999. The album was highly praised and sales exceeded all expectations. The reputation of Ágætis byrjun spread quickly, and foreign journalists and music fans around the world paid a lot of attention to Sigur Rós following the release, as the album ended up being a global hit. Here, the history of the band Sigur Rós will be told from its founding in 1994 until the time that Ágætis byrjun becomes a hit in Iceland and, not long thereafter, around the whole world.
The Iliad
4.390 kr.“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” ―Ange Mlinko, London Review of Books
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.
When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.
The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world―the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters―both human and divine.
The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
Snyrtistofan
3.490 kr.Þegar faraldur herjar á borgina neyðist sögumaður til þess að breyta snyrtistofunni sinni í Biðstofu dauðans. Hann reynir að sinna sjúklingunum ásamt skrautfiskum stofunnar en allt virðist umbreytingum háð og snýst upp í andhverfu sína.
Mario Bellatin er talinn einn áhugaverðasti samtímahöfundur Rómönsku Ameríku
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Moldin heit
4.890 kr.Ástin í lífi Karenar deyr. Hún mætir í jarðarförina óboðin, situr aftast og segir engum hver hún er. En eftir að hafa borið eina fortíð til grafar skýtur önnur upp kollinum. Hún sér Ými, kollega sinn, út um gluggann í erfidrykkjunni þar sem hann virðist ætla að fara sér að voða.
Í kjölfarið er þeim hrundið af stað í ferð þar sem þau þurfa að horfast í augu við hvaða hlutverk þau leiki hvort í annars lífi og í flóknu dansverki, og hvaða nýju hlutverk standa þeim til boða. Moldin heit allar um ástina, listina, sorg og missi. Hér er á ferðinni feikisterk skáldsaga frá nýrri og spennandi rödd í íslenskum bókmenntaheimi.
Transit
3.490 kr.In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions – personal, moral, artistic, and practical – as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.
Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change.
The Forester’s Daughter
2.590 kr.The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter’s heart, she’s sure of it.
Claire Keegan’s mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victor Deegan, with his ‘three teenagers, the milking and the mortgage’.When Deegan finds a gun dog and gives it as a present to his only daughter, his wife is filled with foreboding at this seeming act of kindness. As the seasons pass, long-buried family secrets threaten to emerge.
The Dry Heart
3.490 kr.Four years before she shoots her husband and walks to a café for a coffee, a lonely young woman living in a boarding house meets an older man called Alberto. They go for long walks along the river and on the outskirts of the city; they look like lovers, although they’re not.
Alberto doesn’t tell her anything about himself and she asks few questions. Still, with little else to distract her, she lets her imagination run wild and convinces herself to fall in love. Though he doesn’t feel the same, Alberto asks her to marry him and they have a baby. But Alberto is a man who tires quickly of everything.
The Dry Heart is a short, dark and psychologically rich novel that forensically examines how an unhappy marriage comes to end in murder.
Second-hand Time
3.690 kr.Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble. Fashioning a singular, polyphonic literary form by combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, Alexievich creates a magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, a brilliant, poignant and unique portrait of post-Soviet society out of the stories of ordinary women and men.