False War
4.390 kr.The characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man’s land. Some of them want to leave and can’t, others left and never quite finished getting anywhere. In this choral novel, employing a dazzling range of narrative styles from noir to autofiction, Carlos Manuel Álvarez brings together a series of interconnected stories of the perennially displaced. From Havana to Mexico City to Miami, from New York to Paris to Berlin, whether toiling in a barber shop, lost in the Louvre, competing in a chess hall in Cuba, plotting a theft, or on a trip for émigré dissidents, these characters learn that while they may appear to be on the move, in reality they are paralysed, living in permanent stasis. With a fractured narrative that brilliantly reflects the disintegration that comes with uprooting, full of tenderness, disenchantment and melancholy, False War is an extraordinary novel that confirms Carlos Manuel Álvarez as one of the indispensable voices of his generation.
The Other Girl
3.190 kr.One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two women’s conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annie’s memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria. Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this unknown sister, nor will she ask them a single question about her: their family unit has formed in the image of its vanished predecessor. In The Other Girl, brilliantly translated for the first time into English by Alison L. Strayer, Annie Ernaux explores the meaning of this family secret, and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters.
Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition
3.990 kr.After twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all – and he meant all.
From his first oyster in the Gironde as a child, to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain’s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.
Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more.
On Palestine
3.490 kr.Co-authored by two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, an indispensable book for understanding the situation in Gaza right now.
What is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which is more viable, the binational or one state solution? Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine in this urgent and timely book, a sequel to their acclaimed Gaza in Crisis.
Páfagaukagarðurinn
3.333 kr.Páfagaukagarðurinn er glæpasaga.
Höfundurinn, Akörn, er þjóðþekkt manneskja.
Önnur prentun bókar er breytt og betrumbætt. Fyrsta prentun er uppseld.
Greyhound
4.390 kr.In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers – Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz – who chronicled their own road trips across the US. In Greyhound, Pocock explores the overlap of place and memory, the individual with the communal, and the privatization of public space as she navigates two very different landscapes – an earlier, less atomized America, and a current one mired in inequality, as it teeters on the brink of environmental catastrophe. Her focus is on the built-upon environment: the rivers of tarmac, the illuminated gas stations, the sprawling suburbs and the sites of extraction created specifically to fuel contemporary life. Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book that captures an America in the throes of late capitalism with all its beauty, horror and complexity.
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Dauðinn og stúlkan
Original price was: 4.590 kr..3.990 kr.Current price is: 3.990 kr..Fyrir tuttugu og fimm árum átti hin glæsilega nítján ára gamla Vinca Rockwell í leynilegu ástarsambandi við kennara sinn. Í hennar augum var ástin „allt eða ekkert.“ Þau áttu stefnumót eina vetrarnótt …
Manon, Thomas og Maxime hafa ekki talað saman síðan þau útskrifuðust, fyrir tuttugu og fimm árum, en munu nú hittast á bekkjarmóti. Mun sannleikurinn um það sem raunverulega gerðist þessa örlagaríku vetrarnótt koma í ljós?
Guillaume Musso er langsamlega vinsælasti höfundur Frakklands þessi árin og hafa skáldsögur hans verið þýddar á 40 tungumál og selst í yfir 33 milljónum eintaka um allan heim. Hann fæddist í Antibes í Suður-Frakklandi og býr í París. Þessi bók gerist í fæðingarbæ hans og er sannkallaður vegvísir um Antibes og sveitirnar umhverfis.
Kristín Jónsdóttir þýddi úr frönsku.
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Þyngsta frumefnið
Original price was: 4.890 kr..4.390 kr.Current price is: 4.390 kr..Einn ástsælasti höfundur þjóðarinnar, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, sendir frá sér sína fimmtu ljóðabók. Umfjöllunarefnin eru víðfem: Vísindi og hið guðdómlega, ferðalög og hið djöfullega, samtíminn og sorgin; sem er þyngsta frumefnið ásamt söknuðinum.
Elemental Rebirth
7.490 kr.Elemental Rebirth is a deeply personal healing journey, poetically woven through the voices of the elements – water, fire, air and earth.
In her early thirties, Jósa Goodlife faced the life-altering challenge of overcoming cervical cancer through a hysterectomy. Yet, what began as a physical transformation became the gateway to a profound personal rebirth… one that you are invited to witness in this book.
Elemental Rebirth is a gift to those willing to receive – a narrative that transcends the physical and dives into the heart of – what it means to be a human being, with all its struggles and sensitivities, grace and much beauty. It is not merely a story of survival, but a living testament to the power of embracing change and finding purpose along unexpected paths.
With the energetic and poetic support of the elements, Jósa’s story invites readers on a creative journey through the swirling layers of the mind – touching the mysteries of life and death. It carries a wish for renewed hope, a call for more intentional living on this magical planet, and a gentle shedding of the heavy shadows cast by a mind-conditioned, results-driven society.
At its heart, Jósa’s hope is to reconnect humanity with its innate purpose: to fall back in love with the miracle of existence. Through the restorative forces of the elements, we are reminded of our essential kinship with the natural world and with one another. And above all, to remember how the power of love will always guide us back home.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
3.690 kr.When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.
When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose.
Vetrargulrætur
990 kr.Fimm knýjandi sögur sem fara með lesandann í tímaferðalag frá samtíma aftur á átjándu öld.
Í úthverfi Reykjavíkur týnir kona barni og glímir við afleiðingar þess; ungur málari grípur til ör-þrifaráða þegar kærasta hans sekkur í þunglyndi; myndlistarkona finnur sína leið þrátt fyrir þöggun; og flóttakona frá Þýskalandi tekst á við sköpunar-kraft sinn í nýju umhverfi. Í fimmtu og síðustu sögunni, um ungling sem á sér einn draum heit-astan, birtist kjarni sagnanna fimm: Þvert á tíma og rúm eiga persónurnar það sameiginlegt að rækta drauma sína og skapa eigið líf.
Ævintýri Freyju og Frikka – Drottningin af Galapagos
5.690 kr.Hér segir frá ævintýraferð systkinanna Freyju og Frikka til Galapagoseyja með pöbbum sínum. Þar dvelja þau um borð í bátnum Drottningunni af Galapagos ásamt ferðalöngum frá öllum heimshornum.
Brátt fara undarlegir atburðir að gerast og ljóst er að eitthvað gruggugt á sér stað um borð, eitthvað sem tengist sérstöku dýralífi eyjanna.
Freyja og Frikki finna dularfulla ferðatösku sem hverfur jafn harðan. Þau gera sér grein fyrir að það er ósvífinn þjófur um borð. Þeim er þó ekki trúað og því neyðast tvíburarnir til að leysa málin upp á eigin spýtur, án aðstoðar þeirra fullorðnu. Þá reynir virkilega á samheldni og samvinnu ungu spæjaranna. Smám saman fer myndin að skýrast en tekst þeim að koma upp um þjófinn í tæka tíð?Ævintýri Freyju og Frikka: Drottningin af Galapagos er allt í senn stórskemmtileg, fyndin og spennandi