Bakgrunnurinn
5.990 kr.Ljóðabókin Bakgrunnurinn fjallar um umbreytingaskeið í lífi einstaklingsins og náttúrunnar. Ljóðin lýsa því sem við hverfum frá, skiljum eftir okkur og um leið því sem er væntanlegt. Ljóðin fjalla um árstíðaskiptin, persónulegan og almennan missi. Þau fást við dauðleika okkar, glötuð tækifæri, ástina, tengslalöngun okkar og tengslaskort, vorið sem kemur og fer en snýr þó aftur í ljóðunum.
Þegar Brandur var lítill og hvarf
4.390 kr.Pétur býr einn ásamt nokkrum hænum í fallegri sveit í Svíþjóð en er ósköp einmana. Anna nágrannakona hans sér að honum líður ekki sem best og leggur til að hann fái sér gæludýr.
Morgun einn vaknar Pétur við að eitthvað er ekki eins og það á að vera. Hvað er orðið af nýjasta íbúa hússins sem vanur er að vekja hann með látum og hvernig í ósköpum komust sokkarnir hans, skórnir og axlaböndin út í garð?
Þessi tímalausa bók eftir sænska verðlaunahöfundinn Sven Nordqvist er fullkomin fyrir börn og fullorðna til að lesa saman.
Jamaica Inn
3.690 kr.She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever. On a bitter November evening, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to seek revenge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn.
But the crumbling inn is no safe haven, and Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her domineering husband Joss. In fear of her life, and disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss’s younger brother, Mary is soon plunged into a brutal world of smuggling and murder in which she can trust no one – not even herself.
A Seventh Man
3.690 kr.First published in 1975, this finely wrought investigation remains as urgent as ever, presenting the life of those who have travelled to live and work in Europe. Art critic, novelist, and artist John Berger brings humanity and a voice to those silenced in the political debate about who does and doesn’t belong. Why does the Western world look to migrant labourers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker – the material circumstances and the inner experience – and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life but at its centre.
From A to X: A Story in Letters
3.690 kr.From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds transcendent hope in the pain, fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist
3.690 kr.John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was excluded from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists. Abandoned to obscurity, Neizvestny laboured to realize a monumental and very public vision of art. Exiled to the United States, he finally found recognition, returning to his homeland with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Berger’s account illuminates the very meaning of revolutionary art. In his struggle against official orthodoxy – which brought him into face-to-face conflict with Khrushchev himself – Neizvestny was fight-ing not for a merely personal or aesthetic vision, but for recognition of the social role of art. His sculptures earn a place in the world by reflecting the courage of a whole people, commemorating, in an age of mass suffering, the resistance and endurance of millions.
Embroidery
3.490 kr.At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigurlina finds herself in a hopeless situation. She is the motherless daughter of an eccentric father, who expects her to spend her life helping him catalogue Icelandic archaeological artifacts. But Sigurlina has her own ambitions of education and excitement and after a harrowing experience, takes fate into her own hands. She disappears from Reykjavik, along with a historical relic from her father’s collection. Through a series of incredible events, the artifact is unveiled at The Metropolitan Museum of New York. Meanwhile, officials in Iceland launch their own investigation into the theft of the artifact. A tragicomic tale about the preservation of cultural treasure, an intriguing perspective on the coincidences that have determined their place in history and a thrilling and winding story of the human fates that underpin it all.