Innlyksa
3.990 kr.Smásagnasafnið Innlyksa er samvinnuverkefni þriggja höfunda sem hafa vakið athygli síðustu ár með skáldsögum sínum og ljóðabókum. Það eru þær Díana Sjöfn Jóhannsdóttir, Rebekka Sif Stefánsdóttir og Sjöfn Asare.
Í smásagnasafninu sameina þessir þrír rithöfundar raddir sínar í margslungnum frásögnum af ókennilegum veruleika. Safnið inniheldur fimmtán sögur og í þeim er lesendum varpað ofan í lýsingar á bláköldum hversdegi yfir í hryllingsraunsæi og framtíðarskáldskap. Saman takast sögurnar á við þungamiðju verksins sem er einangrun, einmanaleiki og innilokunarkennd.
Hvað gerir manneskjan þegar öll sund eru lokuð?
„Sögur sem smjúga inn að merg. Raunsæi og annarleiki fléttast saman á áhrifaríkan hátt í anda Svövu Jakobsdóttir.“
Berglind Ósk, rithöfundur
„Innlyksa er tilraun til að brjótast út. Grípandi sögur og samspilið áhugavert á milli höfundanna þriggja.“
Steinar Bragi, rithöfundur
Atburðurinn
4.390 kr.„Árum saman hefur þessi atburður fylgt mér eins og skugginn. Þegar ég les um fóstureyðingu í skáldsögu fyllist ég ósjálfrátt geðshræringu, rétt eins og orðin umhverfist á samri stund í ofsafengna tilfinningu. Á sama hátt kemst ég í uppnám þegar ég heyri af tilviljun „La javanaise“, „J’ai la mémoire qui flanche“ eða önnur dægurlög sem voru mér hugstæð á þessum tíma.“ – Annie Ernaux
Nóbelsverðlaunaskáldið Annie Ernaux er ein mikilvægasta rödd samtímabókmennta í Frakklandi.
Atburðurinn er fjórða bókin sem kemur út eftir hana á íslensku en áður hefur Ugla gefið út Staðinn, Unga manninn og Konu.
Þórhildur Ólafsdóttir íslenskaði.
The Road to the City
3.490 kr.They say that big families are happy, but I could never see anything particularly happy about ours.
Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father’s neglect and her mother’s sadness, she begins to take the dusty road to the city every day, accompanied by Nini, her sweet and mysterious cousin.
When Nini takes a job in a factory and moves in with a city woman, Delia sees another way of being. But when she discovers she’s pregnant, she agrees to marry the father, seduced by the promise of wealth and comfort. Nothing, not even Nini’s desperate declaration of love, can stop her – but her rejection will be his undoing.
The Road to the City is a short, poignant novel about the dreams of youth, and the cruelty it takes to make them come true.
One Boat
3.990 kr.On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly – her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew. Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of John’s; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafés on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are. Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
4.390 kr.Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face-lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange juice with castor oil, and taped her lips at night to prevent unhealthy ‘mouth-breathing’. ‘Many a time in the course of doing these memoirs,’ Mary McCarthy says, ‘I have wished that I were writing fiction.’ But these were the people, along with the Ladies of the Sacred Heart convent school, who inspired her engaging perception, her devastating sense of the sublime and ridiculous, and her witty, novelist’s imagination. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is a major work by one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century – witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written.
The Unnamable
3.190 kr.The Unnamable is a voice. Is it curled up inside an urn, on the point of being born, or is it about to die? Haunted by visitors, it weeps. The Unnamable sifts disjointed memories, grapples with the problem of existence and ultimately perpetuates itself through an endless stream of fragmented words.
The Unnamable is the last of the three great novels Samuel Beckett produced during his ‘frenzy of writing’ in the late 1940s. The others are Molloy and Malone Dies.