Can Socialists be Happy?
2.490 kr.No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one.
Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell’s essays are masterpieces of plain English prose. This stirring new collection brings together his most cherished pieces with lesser-known gems, ranging over everything from tree planting to living with the atom bomb, sleeping rough to the perils of getting what you want in politics.
Coal
2.490 kr.I am Black because I come from the earth’s insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.
Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplicity. Mournful, celebratory, politically conscious, this early collection is a testament to Lorde’s beloved and hugely influential lyric voice, which faithfully captures the complex interiority of the self. These timeless poems resonate down the years.
Ég heyrði ugluna kalla á mig
4.390 kr.Í Kingcome-byggð við norðvesturströnd Kanada hefur fólk búið öldum saman í sátt og samlyndi við náttúruna. En nútíminn hefur hafið innreið sína með tilheyrandi vandamálum og aldagamalt veiðimannasamfélagið á undir högg að sækja. Ungur prestur sest að í byggðinni og í samvistum við innfædda öðlast hann nýjan skilning á lífinu, ekki síst mætti kærleikans.
Fellihýsageymslan
4.990 kr.Eru krakkar skyldugir til að biðja fullorðna um aðstoð við allt sem er spennandi, skemmtilegt eða krefjandi?
Í Fellihýsageymslunni kynnumst við 6. bekkingunum og frændsystkinunum Þórunni og Santiago. Þau lenda í óvæntum aðstæðum og taka málin í sínar hendur og áður en langt um líður hafa þau spunnið lygavef sem erfitt er að vinda ofan af. Við tekur skrautlegt tímabil þar sem eini fasti punkturinn í tilverunni er sjónvarpsfréttaáhorf heima hjá ömmu og afa.
Hver opna inniheldur myndir. Til að gera textann læsilegri er hann í sans letri og skipt upp í tvo dálka, þá fylgir leshjálpari sem er spjald með glugga í miðjunni sem sýnir eingöngu eina setningu í einu og auðveldar lesanda að einbeita sér að þeim orðum er verið að lesa hverju sinni. Einnig tilvalið að nota þegar barn hlustar á fullorðinn lesa, til að barnið geti betur tengt hlustun við orðin á blaðsíðunum og greint samhengi.
Baron Bagge
2.490 kr.Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing… Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso, Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke, triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.
Tales from the Heart : True Stories from my Childhood
2.490 kr.‘I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.’
Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse Condé. These affecting vignettes follow Condé’s early encounters with love, grief, friendship, as she navigates the pernicious legacy of slavery and colonialism in her home of Guadeloupe and as a student in Paris.
I am a Bird from Paradise
2.490 kr.May I remember always when
Your glance in secrecy met mine,
And in my face your love was like
A visibly reflected sign.
From the greatest and most popular of all Persian poets, a selection celebrating love, beauty and the profound connection between the human and the divine.
To Read and Dream
2.490 kr.One of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism of her works. This selection brings together some of her finest verses, love lyrics and sonnets for the contemporary reader. Spanning themes like love, death, loss, womanhood and devotion to pleasures both earthly and divine, these are poems of startling beauty, as evocative and relevant today as when they were first published.
Odour of Chrysanthemums
2.490 kr.This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods.
The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come away with a compressed, rich sense of Lawrence’s wonderful prose style, precision of language and expansive vision of the human struggle and how it can be transcended. Is ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ perhaps the greatest of all English short stories?
The Maverick Pig
2.490 kr.Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of China’s most popular – and subversive – writers. From the political power of silence to the irrepressible spirit of a pig he met while working in a commune, these reflections on life and literature in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution provide a rare glimpse of a fearless satirical genius.
A Moment of War
2.490 kr.In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape execution by your own side; to kill a man with a borrowed rifle and feel nothing but shame. Moving and shrapnel-sharp, A Moment of War recalls the defeat of idealism; ‘that flush of youth which never doubts self-survival, that idiot belief in luck’.
A Confirmed Bachelor
2.490 kr.Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons.
Arthur Schnitzler’s tumultuous psychodrama remains as startling now as it did on first publication.
The Price of Freedom
2.490 kr.Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best stories, focusing on human voices from the religious fracture that forever unhinged two newly independent nations. Powerful, piercing and deeply moving, Manto’s works are key to understanding this bloody chapter in South Asian history.
Lady L.
2.490 kr.‘Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale’
In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and hopeless sycophants, Lady L. is celebrating her eightieth birthday. But as the guests disperse, she feels the undeniable pull of a mysterious pavilion in the lush grounds, and the terrible secret she buried there many years ago .
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
2.490 kr.Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes: Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, whose powers include shape-shifting, immortality and being incredibly rude. Though he rises to a position of power in the heavenly bureaucracy, Monkey King’s arrogant exploits attract the attention of the Buddha – with very unfortunate consequences.
The Broken Nest
2.490 kr.Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories – ‘The Broken Nest’ and ‘Dead or Alive’ – he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of two perfect Bengali households. No-one understands each other; everything is misconstrued; all is lost.
The Chimes
2.490 kr.Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.
Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author’s beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry’s meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.
Strákurinn sem las Jules Verne
4.390 kr.Ég tók upp bókina, sneri henni við og las nafnið Jules Verne og titilinn Grant skipstjóri og börn hans prentað gylltum stöfum á litaða kápumynd sem sýndi furðulegan leiðangur í undarlegu landslagi. „Hvar fékkstu þessa bók?“ spurði ég.
Strákurinn sem las Jules Verne er áhrifamikil söguleg skáldsaga sem gerist á Spáni á fimmta áratug síðustu aldar. Nino er níu ára gamall og elst upp í búðum Þjóðvarðliðsins í bænum Fuensanta de Martos. Sumarið 1947 kemur hinn dularfulli Pepe Portúgali til bæjarins og sest þar að í gamalli, yfirgefinni myllu. Pepe verður besti vinur hins veiklulega og lágvaxna Ninos.
Vinskapur þeirra og lestur bóka Jules Verne verður til þess að Nino fer að sjá skæruhernaðinn á heimaslóðum sínum undir forystu hins goðsagnakennda leiðtoga Cencerro í nýju ljósi. En Nino gætir þess vandlega að halda því fyrir sig hvers hann verður áskynja.
Við höfum alltaf átt heima í kastalanum
4.390 kr.Í þessari mögnuðu skáldsögu kynnumst við systrunum Merricat og Constance sem hefur verið útskúfað úr samfélagi þorpsbúa vegna skelfilegra atburða í fortíð þeirra. Þær lifa fábrotnu en hamingjuríku lífi á ættaróðali sínu í útjaðri þorpsins þar til tilveru þeira er ógnað af utanaðkomandi öflum.
Hrollvekjandi saga um múgæsingu, einangrun, ást og mannfyrirlitningu.
„Dulúðarfull og afar vel gerð saga.“ – The New York Times Book Review
Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir íslenskaði.
Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) hefur stundum verið kölluð fánaberi gotneskra bókmennta. Áhrifa hennar gætir víða í verkum þekktra höfunda, svo sem Stephens King og Neils Gaiman. Ein bók hefur komið út eftir hana á íslensku, Líf á meðal villimanna í þýðingu Gyrðis Elíassonar. Við höfum alltaf átt heima í kastalanum er af mörgum talin hennar besta bók.