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.
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.
