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 .
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.
Kjarvalskver
1.990 kr.Þessi bók geymir í einu lagi viðtöl Matthíasar Johannessens við Jóhannes Kjarval, bæði þau, sem birzt hafa áður og einnig önnur, sem ekki hafa fyrr komið á prent, auk áhrifamikils lokaþáttar frá hendi Matthíasar. Viðtölin eru svo merkileg heimild um einhvern mesta og frumlegasta persónuleika þjóðarinnar, að sjálfsagt má þykja, að þau séu til á einum stað, enda mun lesandi fljótt finna innra samhengi þeirra og listræna stígandi.
Allar heimildir um Jóhannes Kjarval eru og verða mikils virði. Og þótt Matthías Johannessen sé viðurkenndur snillingur að gera viðtöl við hina ólíkustu menn, er óvíst, að honum hafi nokkurn tíma tekizt betur en hér. Samband hans og Kjarvals er náið og skemmtilegt. Eitt er víst, að það myndi á fárra valdi að festa hugmyndaflug og leik Kjarvals jafn-trúverðuglega á blað og hér er gert. Í þessum viðtölum heyrist umfram allt rödd listamannsins sjálfs ósvikin, sterk og margbreytileg. Hún tekur yfir ótrúlega vítt svið milli ólíkindaleiks og trúnaðar, milli ævintýralegs gamans og djúprar alvöru.
Sunflower Sutra
2.490 kr.I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
Allen Ginsberg’s poetry fomented a social and political revolution, and with its rawness and spontaneity changed the course of the American lyric. To read his profane and prophetic verses, about sex, death and America, as well as the humour of his humiliations and self-transformations, is to stretch consciousness and grasp an entire era.
Night Flight
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.
The Image of Her
4.390 kr.She’s living a perfect life – so why does Laurence feel so torn? Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris – Laurence’s life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind writes copy while she’s at home, and dreams of domesticity in the office.
All her life she has strived to meet the expectations of others. But when her 10-year-old daughter, Catherine, starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world, Laurence must finally grapple with a life that prizes image over truth. Slim but powerful, this is a classic story of womanhood and its oppressors, parents and their children, and the quest for personal truth – by the iconic feminist Simone de Beauvoir.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
3.490 kr.In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.
This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss gives way to memories, the little unit of three starts to heal.
Max Porter’s extraordinary debut – part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief – marked the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent. Ten years on, readers continue to discover and fall in love with Grief is the Thing With Feathers.
Valencia
3.690 kr.The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea’s classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts.
Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco’s riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone.
‘Hilarious, euphoric, perspicacious and punk – the book that showed so many of us how writing can be real’ – Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar
‘One of the few truly life changing books I’ve encountered’ – Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby