
The Edge of the Alphabet
3.990 kr.Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world.
The Edge of the Alphabet, the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s foremost writers of the twentieth century, is a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, published here on the centenary of her birth with a new foreword by Catherine Lacey.

Föðurráð
5.190 kr.Bubba Morthens þekkja allir og saga hans hefur verið sögð og skráð en Bubbi er ávallt í samtímanum og viðfangsefnin sífellt ný – og þó sígild. Hér yrkir hann um lífsreyndan föður sem fylgist með ungum dætrum á leið út í lífið, þann ólgusjó sem hann hefur sjálfur siglt, en ráð hans og orð fá ekki alltaf hljómgrunn.
Föðurráð fjallar um ugginn sem býr í brjóstinu en líka ástina og fögnuðinn yfir framrás lífsins, nýjum degi, nýrri veröld.

Flaumgosar
5.190 kr.Flaumgosar er tíunda ljóðabók Sigurbjargar Þrastardóttur.
Hér tekst Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir á við drauma, angist og undrun fólks í flaumi tímans og veitir fínstillta innsýn í íslenska þjóðarsál. Ljóðin bera skýrt handbragð skáldsins, margslungið myndmál og beitta kímni.

The Use of Photography
3.990 kr.The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months, and had lost all her hair from the treatments. At the end of January she had surgery, followed by radiation therapy.
The affair took place in different locations and Ernaux describes how, shortly after it began, she found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table – and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterwards. She went and got her camera, and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray. When she told Marc Marie what she had done, he said he had felt the same desire.
Translated by Alison L. Strayer into English for the first time, The Use of Photography is an extraordinary meditation on eroticism, photography and writing, a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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So Late in the Day
3.490 kr.After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he might have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude – and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
From one of the world’s great writers, So Late in the Day asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women.


