Og þaðan gengur sveinninn skáld
7.490 kr.Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925–2011) var einn frumlegasti og áhrifamesti höfundur okkar á síðari hluta síðustu aldar og fram á þessa, auk þess sem hann var óþreytandi menningarfrömuður og áberandi í þjóðlífinu.
Í tilefni þess að öld er liðin frá fæðingu Thors minnast samferðamenn, fræðimenn, þýðendur og aðrir rithöfundar hans, hver frá sínum sjónarhóli, og varpa ólíku ljósi á þennan flókna höfund og margbrotna persónuleika. Hér eru stuttar svipmyndir, fræðilegar úttektir, ljóð og teikningar. Synir Thors, Örnólfur og Guðmundur Andri, söfnuðu greinunum og völdu einnig stutta texta úr verkum hans sem birtir eru á milli greinanna. Innleggin eru á fjórða tug og að auki er í bókinni fjöldi mynda.
Kína frá fyrri öld – China Before
8.490 kr.Unnur Guðjónsdóttir rak um árabil ferðaskrifstofu sem sérhæfði sig í ferðum til Kína. Hún tók snemma ástfóstri við þetta stóra og mikla land, með „teljandi“ íbúum, og árunum 1983 og 1992 tók hún þar mikið magn mynda, sem finna má í þessari einstöku bók, sem sýnir okkur Kína frá síðustu öld, en margt hefur nú breyst þar og því nauðsynlegt að varðveita gamla tímann eins og kostur er.
Joy Is My Middle Name
3.990 kr.Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe – the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner.
Full of stories, character, awkward silence, relatable sentiment; the buzz of perfect moments are funnelled onto the page.
Exteriors
3.490 kr.Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux’s books – the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.
Notes from an Island
3.990 kr.For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island’s austere charms. Notes from an Island, offers both a memoir of, and homage to, this beloved island home. Tove’s spare prose, and Tuulikki’s subtle washes and aquatints, combine to form a work of meditative beauty.
This edition includes the first UK publication of Tove’s acclaimed 1961 essay/prose poem, The Island.
On Writing
3.490 kr.A collection of previously unpublished letters from America’s cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski’s reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life to.
Piercing, unsentimental and often hilarious, On Writing is filled not only with memorable lines but also with the author’s trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos and intimacy. In the previously unpublished letters to editors, friends and fellow writers collected here, Bukowski is brutally frank about the drudgery of work and uncompromising when it comes to the absurdities of life and of art.
Mynd örlaganna
1.290 kr.Isabel Allende hefur nú skrifað sjálfstætt framhald hinnar geysivinsælu sögu, Dóttir gæfunnar, og myndar þá þessi bók miðsöguna í þríleik sem endar á Húsi andanna, fyrstu bók Allende. Sú sem hér segir frá er Aurora del Valle, barnabarn Elísu Sommers og hins kínverska læknis Taos Chi’en. Sagan gerist bæði í San Francisco og Chile og við sögu koma meðal annarra undurfögur en ógæfusöm móðir Auroru, gerspilltur og lífsleiður faðir hennar, stórbrotin föðuramma og í fyllingu tímans eiginmaður sem býr yfir leyndarmáli og er þá fátt eitt talið af litríkum persónum sem fylla hér blaðsíðurnar eins og í fyrri bókum höfundar. Hér er sögð margþætt saga af stórbrotnum örlögum, ósviknum ástríðum og spaugilegum atvikum með samblandi af heitri samúð og stríðnisbliki í auga. Kolbrún Sveinsdóttir þýddi.
KRANT – 1. tölublað
990 kr.Krant.is er einföld og aðgengileg bloggsíða sem allir geta tekið þátt í. Á síðunni verða engar auglýsingar, engir óþarfa flipar, ekkert kommenntakerfi og engir persónulegir aðgangar, aðeins sköpunargleði. Fólk er beðið um að senda færslur á tölvupóstnetfangið okkar en færslurnar mega vera hvað sem er: skoðanapistlar, ljósmyndir, skapandi skrif, hugleiðingar, skemmtilegar staðreyndir, spurningaþrautir, menningargagnrýni eða hvað sem höfundum dettur í hug. Færslurnar geta verið eins langar og stuttar og höfundur vill, þær mega vera nafnlausar, undir dulnefni eða undir eiginnafni. Eina ritskoðun af okkar hálfu er ef um hatursorðræðu sé að ræða.
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth
4.390 kr.A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.
These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.
We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.
Great Big Beautiful Life
4.690 kr.When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a Serious Publication.
The catch? Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud, Hayden Anderson, is sure of the same thing.
The proposal? A one-month trial period to unearth the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th Century, after which she’ll choose who’ll tell her story.
The problem? Margaret is only giving each of them tantalising pieces. Pieces they can’t put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story – just like the tale Margaret’s spinning – could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad … depending on who’s telling it.