The Wrath of Achilles
2.490 kr.On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begins to spin . . . From frenzied rampages to intimate moments of grief, this selection from Homer’s Iliad traces the tale of a warrior whose name echoes through the ages, and whose story remains as powerful as ever.
The Story of an Hour
2.490 kr.There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.
Nuns, maidens, adventurers – with electricity, The Story of an Hour brings together stories of female freedom, as Kate Chopin asks the question: what will emancipation feel like for women, looking at the horizon and the future, to the frontier?
A Dog’s Heart
2.490 kr.What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for a government official, in other words. This rude, riotous send-up of the Soviet Union, banned immediately on publication, is satire red in tooth and claw.
Flower
3.990 kr.‘I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.’ Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating personal truth as unavailable – something that must be made up and convincing. Taking cues from confessional literature, his daughter’s improvised games, poor internet writing and shitty AI, Ed Atkins, in his first work of non-fiction, equivocates between inanity and divinity, ease and pain, sentimentality and sterility.
The Gender of Sound
2.990 kr.Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category.
From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson invites us to listen again, and in doing so to reimagine our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood.
Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.
Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth
3.990 kr.It’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream – the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind
This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.
Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.
With characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the adored author of Bluets and The Argonauts, Pathemata is a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.
Draumaþjófurinn
1.290 kr.Í Hafnarlandi er allt eins og það á að vera og rotturnar þekkja sinn sess í lífinu: Safnarar safna mat, Njósnarar njósna, Bardagarottur halda óvinum frá og Étarar éta og hafa það gott. Efst í virðingarstiganum er Skögultönn Foringi sem öllu ræður.
En daginn sem dóttir hennar, Eyrnastór Aðalbarn Gullfalleg Rottudís, gerir uppreisn tekur sagan óvænta stefnu; fer með söguhetjuna okkar inn í Borgina þar sem hættur eru á hverju strái og framandi rottur leika lausum hala. Sjálfur DRAUMAÞJÓFURINN er sendur til að
bjarga henni – eða til að deyja!Gunnar Helgason hefur á undanförnum árum sent frá sér fjölda gríðarvinsælla barnabóka. Fyrir Mömmu klikk! hlaut hann Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin og Bókaverðlaun barnanna hafa sex sinnum fallið honum í skaut. Hér skapar hann spánnýjan og spennandi söguheim sem auðvelt er að týna sér í.
Myndir gerir Linda Ólafsdóttir sem hefur unnið til fjölda verðlauna fyrir myndlýsingar sínar, hér heima og erlendis.
