Ótrúlega skynugar skepnur
4.690 kr.Tova Sullivan er nýorðin ekkja og farin að vinna við ræstingar í Sædýrasafni Sowell Bay. Það hefur alltaf átt vel við hana að hafa nóg fyrir stafni, ekki síst þegar erfiðleikar steðja að. Eins og þegar Eric, átján ára gamall sonur hennar, hvarf á dularfullan hátt þrjátíu árum fyrr.
Sædýrasafnið er fullt af furðuskepnum en sú sem vekur mesta athygli Tovu er geðstirður kyrrahafskolkrabbi að nafni Marcellus. Smám saman myndast sérstæð vinátta með ræstingakonunni og kolkrabbanum, sem reynist luma á dýrmætum upplýsingum um hvarf Erics. En tíminn til að miðla þeim er að renna út.
Ótrúlega skynugar skepnur er hnyttin og heillandi saga um uppgjör við fortíðina sem farið hefur sigurför um heiminn; hún hefur verið þýdd á yfir þrjátíu tungumál og selst í meira en tveimur milljónum eintaka.
Nanna Brynhildur Þórsdóttir þýddi.
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.
The Book of Disappearance
4.390 kr.Alaa is haunted by his grandmother”s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa’s neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.
That search, and Ariel’s reactions to it, intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. Between the stories of Alaa and Ariel are the people of Jaffa and Tel Aviv – café patrons, radio commentators, flower-cutters – against whose ordinary lives these fissures and questions play out.
Boulder
3.690 kr.Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname ‘Boulder’. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can’t bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn’t know how to say no – and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien.
With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her priorities lie, and whether her yearning for freedom can truly trump her yearning for love. Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world – and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.
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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.
