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Someone Like Us
Original price was: 5.690 kr..2.845 kr.Current price is: 2.845 kr..After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush’s stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as a cover for a harder, more troubling truth. But on the same day that Mamush arrives home in Washington, Samuel is found dead in his garage.
With Hannah and their two-year-old son back in Paris, Mamush sets out on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he’d been told never to ask. As he does so, he begins to understand that perhaps the only chance he has of saving his family and making it back home is to confront not only the unresolved mystery around Samuel’s life and death, but his own troubled memories, and the years spent masking them. Breathtaking, commanding, unforgettable work from one of America’s most prodigiously gifted novelists.

Þín eru sárin
5.490 kr.Einlæg og ögrandi skáldævisaga þar sem höfundur fjallar um eldfimt málefni af áræðni og hispursleysi. Tímabær og mikilvæg bók.
Þórdís Þúfa hefur hlotið mikið lof fyrir verk sín, sem hafa m.a. verið gefin út á ensku og þýsku, auk þess sem ljóð hennar hafa birst í tímaritum víða um heim.

Ways of Seeing
3.690 kr.How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.
“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.”
“But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: “This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures.” By now he has.
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Great Expectations
Original price was: 5.690 kr..2.845 kr.Current price is: 2.845 kr.. 









Óseldar bækur bóksala
4.390 kr.Bærinn Wigtown í Skotlandi er paradís bókaunnenda. Shaun Bythell er einn af bóksölunum í Wigtown. Búðin hans, The Bookshop, er stærsta fornbókabúð Skotlands í gömlu húsi með níu stórum herbergjum stúfullum af bókum.
Bækur Shauns um bókalífið í fornbókabúðinni hans hafa slegið í gegn víða um heim. Óseldar bækur bóksala er þriðja bókin eftir hann sem kemur út á íslensku en hinar tvær, Dagbók bóksala og Játningar bóksala, hafa fengið hinar bestu viðtökur.
Í þessum skemmtilegu bókum er brugðið upp lifandi myndum af mannlegum samskiptum í bókabúðinni, furðufuglunum sem þar reka inn nefið, skrýtna fólkinu sem vinnur þar, kettinum Kafteini og öllu amstrinu sem fylgir lífi fornbókasalans.
Snjólaug Bragadóttir íslenskaði.

heimkynni
4.590 kr.heimkynni er fjórða ljóðabók Þórðar Sævars. Bókin geymir m.a. Akureyrar-ljóð, myndljóð, póstkort og dagbókarskrif. Þórður Sævar hefur auk ljóðabókanna gefið út eitt smáprósasafn, íslenskað sex skáldverk eftir Richard Brautigan og búið endurminningar vesturfarans og alþýðulistamannsins Guðjóns R. Sigurðssonar til útgáfu.





