Pride and Prejudice
3.190 kr.No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes …’When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
The Books of Jacob
4.990 kr.In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank—a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day—is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.
In a nod to books written in Hebrew, The Books of Jacob is paginated in reverse, beginning on p. 955 and ending on p. 1 – but read traditionally, front cover to back.
Þegar hún hló
8.490 kr.Umdeild fjölmiðlakona finnst myrt úti á Granda eftir að hafa hlaupið í Reykjavíkurmaraþoni. Þrátt fyrir mannfjöldann eru engin vitni að atburðinum og morðið virðist óvenju fagmannlega útfært. Hin unga lögreglukona, Sigurdís, er kölluð til liðs við rannsóknina, en um leið dregur til tíðinda í máli er tengist dauða föður hennar.
Katrín Júlíusdóttir tekur hér upp þráðinn úr bók sinni Sykur, sem fékk góða dóma og hlaut glæpasagnaverðlaunin Svartfuglinn. Sykur kom út í Bretlandi og fékk glimrandi viðtökur.
Allar litlu lygarnar
8.490 kr.Ung velgengnishjón láta lífið af skotsárum á heimili sínu frá tveimur dætrum, kornabarni og unglingsstúlku. Tuttugu árum síðar leitar sú eldri til sálfræðings. Hvað gerðist á þessu mikla fyrirmyndarheimili? Hvers vegna töldu ýmsir innan lögreglunnar að ekki hefðu öll kurl komið til grafar í málinu?
„Í tvo áratugi hefur þetta mál vafist fyrir mér, en aldrei bjóst ég við því að einn daginn yrði ég hluti af sögunni.“
Ung velgengnishjón láta lífið af skotsárum á heimili sínu frá tveimur dætrum, kornabarni og unglingsstúlku. Tuttugu árum síðar leitar sú eldri til sálfræðings sem sérhæfir sig í áföllum – og þekkir þau reyndar líka á eigin skinni. Hvað gerðist á þessu mikla fyrirmyndarheimili? Hvers vegna töldu ýmsir innan lögreglunnar að ekki hefðu öll kurl komið til grafar í málinu? Og af hverju er sálfræðingurinn með rannsóknargögn úr því í sínum fórum?
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir hefur hlotið margvísleg verðlaun fyrir glæpasögur sínar, bæði heima og erlendis, meðal annars unnið Blóðdropann – Íslensku glæpasagnaverðlaunin og Gullrýtinginn í Bretlandi fyrir frumraun ársins. Bækur hennar koma út á yfir tuttugu tungumálum.
Allar litlu lygarnar er þéttofin glæpasaga með óvæntum vendingum og heldur lesandanum í heljargreipum allt til enda.
Syndafall
8.490 kr.Yrsa Sigurðardóttir fléttar hér listilega saman ólíka þræði sem virðast algjörlega ótengdir en undir brothættu yfirborðinu lúrir ógæfan …
Ung kona heyrir stöðugt ókennilegan grát eftir að hún lætur græða kuðung í eyrað en hún missti heyrnina í æsku. Hvaðan koma þessi hljóð? Rithöfundur leggur land undir fót um hávetur til að heyja sér efni í skáldsögu sem hann hyggst byggja á dramatískum atburðum í sögu fjölskyldunnar – en það fer ekki alveg eins og hann ætlaði. Og kona sem lifað hefur í skugga ofbeldis sem hún var beitt fyrir áratugum leitar réttlætis með ófyrirsjáanlegum afleiðingum
What We Can Know
4.690 kr.2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.
2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.
Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.
When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.
Based on a True Story
3.190 kr.Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated and unusually intuitive, she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer’s life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. And as their lives become further entwined, L. begins to threaten Delphine’s identity and her safety.
Poor Artists
3.690 kr.Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway?In this eye-opening journey through the bizarre world of contemporary art, criticism duo The White Pube tell the story of art like never before.
Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar through childhood obsessions, art school lessons and her professional debut. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself.
Blending imaginative storytelling with dialogue from anonymized interviews with real people in the art world who have all had to wrestle with the same decisions – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a few ghosts, a Venice Biennale fraudster and a communist messiah – Poor Artists is a powerful testimony to the emotional, existential and financial experience of artists today.
