Leiðin út í heim
1.290 kr.Palli vaknar í rúminu sínu. Hann er einn í herberginu og þar er undarlega kyrrt og hljótt. Hann sest upp. Fötin hans liggja snyrtilega samanbrotin á stólkoll við bláan rúmgaflinn. Undan rúminu skaga uppreimaðir skór. Maðurinn veit að hann dreymdi eitthvað en man ekki hvað það var.
Palli er einn í heiminum en þó ekki því hér eru að lágmarki tveir. Heimurinn innra með manneskjunni og heimurinn fyrir utan hana. Falli heimurinn hið ytra snurðulaust saman við innri heim er maðurinn einn í einum heimi. Það er mikil og dapurleg einsemd. Sé munur á heimunum en ekki milligengt er maðurinn í öðrum heimi.
Höfundur bregður á leik með fræga barnabók Jens Sigsgaard um Palla sem var einn í heiminum en veltir um leið upp tilvistarlegum spurningum.
Leiðin út í heim er fimmta skáldsaga Hermanns Stefánssonar rithöfundar sem hlotið hefur verðskuldaða athygli fyrir nýbreytni og frumlega hugsun í skáldskap. Eftir Hermann hafa einnig komið út ljóð, leikrit og skáldfræðilegir textar.
Flaumgosar
5.190 kr.Flaumgosar er tíunda ljóðabók Sigurbjargar Þrastardóttur.
Hér tekst Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir á við drauma, angist og undrun fólks í flaumi tímans og veitir fínstillta innsýn í íslenska þjóðarsál. Ljóðin bera skýrt handbragð skáldsins, margslungið myndmál og beitta kímni.
Kærókeppnin
4.990 kr.Davíð og Natalía hafa verið bestu vinir síðan þau fæddust. Þau hafa líka verið að keppa síðan þau fæddust. Nú etja þau kappi í splunkunýrri keppni sem gengur út á að komast í samband. Upphitun sem setur tóninn, brösuglegt upphaf, æsispennandi framvinda og óvæntar lokamínútur. Fótbolti, handbolti og körfubolti eru alltaf í kringum okkur. En það er ekki á hverjum degi sem þér gefst tækifæri til að fylgjast með beinni textalýsingu á kærókeppni! Þetta stefnir í hörkukeppni! - -50%
So Late in the Day
3.490 kr.After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he might have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude – and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
From one of the world’s great writers, So Late in the Day asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women.
Sagittarius
3.490 kr.At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a city with her daughter and son-in-law, yet soon grows restless with her new life. When she strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Scilla, her world suddenly seems rich with potential and before long, the pair are planning to open an art gallery together. After a series of afternoons spent over coffee granitas in local bars, however, it quickly becomes apparent that there is more to Scilla than meets the eye. Class, in all its manifestations and aspirations, is at the heart of Sagittarius , as misplaced confidence and ambition gone awry leads inexorably towards the downfall of a family.
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Napalm in the Heart
Original price was: 4.990 kr..2.495 kr.Current price is: 2.495 kr.. 
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
4.690 kr.The definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world’s greatest living poetsNot much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships, her queerness, her family, her death – all these details are hazy, lost to time. Likewise, of the nine scrolls of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed during her life on the island of Lebsos, only one poem has survived complete – the rest are fragments.
In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson has collected and translated all the surviving fragments of Sappho’s verse. With the original Greek parallel to each poem, Carson leaves brackets and white space to signal the gaps where text has been lost to time – allowing us to imagine the poems as they were written. With her singular style and extensive translator’s notes, Carson pieces together the voice of Sappho. And through her, Sappho’s reflections on love and desire, suitors and rivals, goddesses and daughters, echo through millennia.
Family Lexicon
3.690 kr.‘The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.’
Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family.
The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia – yet he cannot be without her. Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini’s Italy, the Levi household must become not only a home – but a stronghold against fascism.
Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.
Family and Borghesia
3.490 kr.Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.
Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninetta, and their child is Dodò, who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family, the first of these two novellas from the 1970s, is an examination, at first comic, then progressively dark, about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed, missing more as they do, until finally time is up.
Borghesia, about a widow who keeps acquiring and losing the Siamese cats she hopes will keep her company in her loneliness, explores similar ground, along with the confusions of feeling and domestic life that came with the loosening social strictures of the 1970s. “She remembered saying that there were three things in life you should always refuse,” thinks one of Natalia Ginzburg’s characters, beginning to age out of “Hypocrisy, resignation, and unhappiness. But it was impossible to shield yourself from those three things. Life was full of them and there was no holding them back.”
Vinur minn, vindurinn
3.490 kr.Getur þú blásið eins og vindurinn, öskrað eins og rokið og hvíslað eins og golan?
Bækur Bergrúnar Írisar hafa frá upphafi vakið athygli og aðdáun jafnt hjá ungum sem öldnum lesendum og hlotið fjölda tilnefninga og verðlauna. Fyrstu myndabækur hennar, Vinur minn, vindurinn og Sjáðu mig, sumar? eru hér samankomnar í endurbættri útgáfu í einu fallegu verki sem gleður augað og eykur orðaforðann um uppáhaldsumræðuefni Íslendinga – veðrið.
Wrong Norma
4.390 kr.As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like the New Yorker and the Paris Review.
Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word “idea”, the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked.
That’s why I’ve called them “wrong”.
Glerþræðirnir
5.490 kr.Í Glerþráðunum er atvikum og persónum úr sögu lands og þjóðar teflt fram gegn lífsskilyrðum nútímans. Hér er þó ekki tekið mið af stórviðburðum Íslandssögunnar heldur sagðar hversdagssögur af mönnum og málleysingjum, af þeirri fundvísi sem einkennir fyrri verk höfundar.
Vitnisburðir ljósmæðra og flakkara um lífið í landinu eru raktir; sagt er frá hundafeiti í lækningaskyni, óútskýrðum fjárráðum Guðríðar Símonardóttur og óslökkvandi Danahatri Gísla Brynjúlfssonar; útskýrt er hvers vegna kvenlíkaminn var um skeið helsti keppinautur Guðs um sálarheill karlmannsins og hvernig endurreisn íslenskunnar átti sér stað á hjónasæng Sveinbjarnar Egilssonar og Helgu Benediktsdóttur Gröndal. Og er þá aðeins fátt eitt nefnt.
Í þjóðlífsþáttum rituðum af skáldlegu innsæi er fortíð og nútíð fléttað saman, af samkennd með því fólki sem á undan fór — og með skírskotun til þeirra sem nú eru á dögum.
Skýin eru skuggar – ljóðaúrval
4.590 kr.Nóbelsskáldið Jon Fosse byrjaði snemma að yrkja, að sögn fyrir fermingu, og eitt af því fyrsta sem hann setti á blað var ljóð um hafið, dauðann og ástina. Síðan hefur hann orðið einn af mikilvægustu rithöfundum samtímans og ber þar hæst prósaverk og leikrit, en ljóðlistin hefur þó alla tíð fylgt honum og er mikilvægur hluti af höfundarverkinu í heild.
Þetta ljóðaúrval spannar fjóra áratugi á ferli skáldsins og veitir góða innsýn í þá veröld sem verk hans snúast um.
Aðalsteinn Ásberg Sigurðsson íslenskaði.
Spunatíð
4.590 kr.Í þessari nýju ljóðabók er spunnið úr þjóðlegum þráðum en einnig ferskum og framandi svo úr verður fjölbreyttur vefur þar sem fléttast saman frjáls póesía og háttbundin ljóð. Hjartsláttur lífsins er aldrei langt undan. Spunatíð er ellefta frumsamda ljóðabók Aðalsteins Ásbergs, en ljóð hans hafa verið þýdd og gefin út á norsku, ensku, þýsku, frönsku og rússnesku.