Sagittarius
3.490 kr.At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a city with her daughter and son-in-law, yet soon grows restless with her new life. When she strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Scilla, her world suddenly seems rich with potential and before long, the pair are planning to open an art gallery together. After a series of afternoons spent over coffee granitas in local bars, however, it quickly becomes apparent that there is more to Scilla than meets the eye. Class, in all its manifestations and aspirations, is at the heart of Sagittarius , as misplaced confidence and ambition gone awry leads inexorably towards the downfall of a family.
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Napalm in the Heart
Original price was: 4.990 kr..2.994 kr.Current price is: 2.994 kr.. 
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
4.690 kr.The definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world’s greatest living poetsNot much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships, her queerness, her family, her death – all these details are hazy, lost to time. Likewise, of the nine scrolls of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed during her life on the island of Lebsos, only one poem has survived complete – the rest are fragments.
In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson has collected and translated all the surviving fragments of Sappho’s verse. With the original Greek parallel to each poem, Carson leaves brackets and white space to signal the gaps where text has been lost to time – allowing us to imagine the poems as they were written. With her singular style and extensive translator’s notes, Carson pieces together the voice of Sappho. And through her, Sappho’s reflections on love and desire, suitors and rivals, goddesses and daughters, echo through millennia.
Family Lexicon
3.690 kr.‘The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.’
Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family.
The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia – yet he cannot be without her. Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini’s Italy, the Levi household must become not only a home – but a stronghold against fascism.
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
Family and Borghesia
3.490 kr.Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.
Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninetta, and their child is Dodò, who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family, the first of these two novellas from the 1970s, is an examination, at first comic, then progressively dark, about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed, missing more as they do, until finally time is up.
Borghesia, about a widow who keeps acquiring and losing the Siamese cats she hopes will keep her company in her loneliness, explores similar ground, along with the confusions of feeling and domestic life that came with the loosening social strictures of the 1970s. “She remembered saying that there were three things in life you should always refuse,” thinks one of Natalia Ginzburg’s characters, beginning to age out of “Hypocrisy, resignation, and unhappiness. But it was impossible to shield yourself from those three things. Life was full of them and there was no holding them back.”
Enter Ghost
3.490 kr.After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.
When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men – yet as opening night draws closer, it becomes clear just how many obstacles stand before the troupe. Amidst it all, the life she once knew starts to give way to the exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.
Vinur minn, vindurinn
3.490 kr.Getur þú blásið eins og vindurinn, öskrað eins og rokið og hvíslað eins og golan?
Bækur Bergrúnar Írisar hafa frá upphafi vakið athygli og aðdáun jafnt hjá ungum sem öldnum lesendum og hlotið fjölda tilnefninga og verðlauna. Fyrstu myndabækur hennar, Vinur minn, vindurinn og Sjáðu mig, sumar? eru hér samankomnar í endurbættri útgáfu í einu fallegu verki sem gleður augað og eykur orðaforðann um uppáhaldsumræðuefni Íslendinga – veðrið.
Wrong Norma
4.390 kr.As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like the New Yorker and the Paris Review.
Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word “idea”, the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked.
That’s why I’ve called them “wrong”.
The Empusium
4.390 kr.In September 1913, a young tuberculosis-stricken Pole checks into Wilhelm Opitz’s Gentlemen’s Health Resort in the Silesian mountains. Each evening, residents indulge in local, hallucinogenic liqueur and engage in lively debates on topics like monarchy vs. democracy, women’s equality, and war vs. peace. A hundred years after ‘The Magic Mountain’, Olga Tokarczuk explores Thomas Mann’s territory, masterfully weaving horror, comedy, and folklore into her narrative.
Glerþræðirnir
5.490 kr.Í Glerþráðunum er atvikum og persónum úr sögu lands og þjóðar teflt fram gegn lífsskilyrðum nútímans. Hér er þó ekki tekið mið af stórviðburðum Íslandssögunnar heldur sagðar hversdagssögur af mönnum og málleysingjum, af þeirri fundvísi sem einkennir fyrri verk höfundar.
Vitnisburðir ljósmæðra og flakkara um lífið í landinu eru raktir; sagt er frá hundafeiti í lækningaskyni, óútskýrðum fjárráðum Guðríðar Símonardóttur og óslökkvandi Danahatri Gísla Brynjúlfssonar; útskýrt er hvers vegna kvenlíkaminn var um skeið helsti keppinautur Guðs um sálarheill karlmannsins og hvernig endurreisn íslenskunnar átti sér stað á hjónasæng Sveinbjarnar Egilssonar og Helgu Benediktsdóttur Gröndal. Og er þá aðeins fátt eitt nefnt.
Í þjóðlífsþáttum rituðum af skáldlegu innsæi er fortíð og nútíð fléttað saman, af samkennd með því fólki sem á undan fór — og með skírskotun til þeirra sem nú eru á dögum.