Sumarblóm og heimsins grjót
990 kr.Sumarblóm og heimsins grjót er grípandi örlagasaga um ást og vináttu, vonir og vonbrigði, flókin fjölskyldubönd – en ekki síst um aðstæður kvenna og óvenjulegar leiðir til að bjarga sér við erfiðar aðstæður.
Í byrjun síðustu aldar blasir fátt annað við fátækri stúlku í litlum firði en að giftast, eignast börn, strita ævilangt á sama stað eins og formæðurnar. En Sóleyjar bíður öðruvísi líf og örlögin bera hana burt úr firðinum, til móts við nýja tíma og nýjar hugmyndir. Þegar hún stendur uppi ein með nýfætt barn þarf hún að gangast undir samkomulag sem færir henni bæði frelsi og fjötra. Seiglan fleytir henni gegnum brimrót áfalla og erfiðleika, lífsgleði og traustir vinir halda henni uppi þegar reynir á. Og stundum virðist hamingjan í sjónmáli.
Þetta er fyrsta skáldsaga Sigrúnar Ölbu Sigurðardóttur sem byggir söguna að hluta til á raunverulegum atburðum og persónum.
All Fours
3.490 kr.Semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction.
With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic and domestic life of a 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectations while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
Wandering Stars
3.490 kr.Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America’s war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.
Butter
3.490 kr.Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back.
Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body. Might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought?
Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, ‘The Konkatsu Killer’, Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, gripping exploration of misogyny, obsession and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.
Gliff
3.490 kr.Once upon a time, not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint round the outside of their house . . .
So begins the freewheeling and urgent new novel from Ali Smith – the story of two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run from history as it takes a turn for the worse.
Hefnd Diddu Morthens
4.690 kr.„Stundum læt ég mér detta í hug að prófa eitthvað nýtt. Ég hef verið í bókaklúbbi, stundað Zumba, gengið á fjöll og farið í sjósund. Ekkert af þessu höfðar sérstaklega til mín en það hefur verið skárra að hafa eitthvað við að vera. Eitthvað til að dreifa huganum.“
Starfsferill Diddu Morthens er að engu orðinn, börnin löngu farin að heiman og eiginmaðurinn er úrvinda öll kvöld. Hún hangir í tölvunni til að drepa tímann og dag einn býr hún til gervimenni á netinu til að hefna sín á gamalli bekkjarsystur. Atlagan heppnast svo vel að Didda ræðst í flóknari aðgerðir sem krefjast einbeitts brotavilja.
Sprenghlægileg saga sem bar sigur úr býtum í Nýjum röddum, handritasamkeppni Forlagsins.
Sigríður Pétursdóttir er kvikmyndafræðingur og vann lengst af hjá RÚV við dagskrárgerð í útvarpi og sjónvarpi. Hefnd Diddu Morthens er fyrsta skáldsaga hennar.
Strange Pictures
4.390 kr.A series of drawings made by a young woman before her death. A child’s disturbing picture of his home. A desperate sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments.
Each contains a chilling warning. Each reveals a terrible secret, hidden in plain sight.
Uketsu’s eerie mysteries have captivated millions of readers. Can you find the clues in these strange pictures and uncover the sinister truth that connects them all?
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 Time Machine
2.490 kr.The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators.
An immediate bestseller, it has delighted and unnerved generations of readers, and will no doubt keep on doing so until some of the events predicted in the book make readers extinct.
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?
The Shadow out of Time
2.490 kr.Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before.
After five years of ‘strange amnesia’, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation into Earth’s deep past.
Journey with Peaslee to discover his fate in the story described by author Lin Carter as ‘Lovecraft’s single greatest achievement in fiction’.