Draugar banka ekki á dyr
4.390 kr.Bjössi og Bifur eru bestu vinir og alltaf saman. Eitt frostkalt síðdegi tilkynnir Bjössi að Andarsteggur sé væntanlegur í heimsókn. Bifur vill alls ekki fá neina gesti og tekur því til sinna ráða til að fæla þá á braut. Þegar líður á kvöldið á Bifur þó eftir að læra að óvæntur félagskapur getur verið mjög ánægjulegur.
Það sem pabbi sagði mér
3.890 kr.Ástvaldur horfir á svölurnar á himninum.
– Þær eru á leið hinum megin á hnöttinn, útskýrir pabbi.
– Get ég farið eins langt og þær þegar ég verð stór? spyr Ástvaldur.
– Jafnlangt og enn þá lengra, svarar pabbi.Og í huganum leggur Ástvaldur af stað út í hinn stóra heim þar sem húsin eru ógnarhá og margt getur leynst í skóginum. Á ferðalaginu stendur pabbi sem klettur við hlið hans og gefur góð ráð þegar á móti blæs.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev
4.390 kr.In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky’s Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. ‘It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written,’ writes Leonard Woolf in his autobiography. ‘It makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy and his character as if one were sitting in the same room – his greatness and his littleness, his entrancing and infuriating complexity, his titanic and poetic personality, his superb humour.’ In 1934, the book was expanded to include Gorky’s memoirs of two other great Russian literary figures, Anton Chekhov and Leonid Andreyev. Almost a hundred years later, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev is reissued in a superb new translation by Bryan Karetnyk.
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.
The First Bad Man
3.490 kr.From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You, a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny–so Miranda July–readers will be blown away.
Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people’s babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women’s self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they’ve been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate in this one.
When Cheryl’s bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl’s eccentrically-ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee–the selfish, cruel blond bombshell–who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime.
Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual fantasies and fierce maternal love, Miranda July’s first novel confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic and important voice today, and a writer for all time. The First Bad Man is dazzling, disorienting, and unforgettable.
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.
House of Day, House of Night
4.390 kr.A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death – with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech – was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history but a cosmology. Another brilliant ‘constellation novel’ in the mode of her International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night is a brilliantly imaginative epic novel of a small place by Olga Tokarczuk, one of the most daring and ambitious novelists of our time.
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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.