Múffa
1.990 kr.Áleitin og grípandi saga eftir snjallan höfund um fjölskyldubönd og vináttu, frelsi og hyldýpi – og það hvernig fólk kýs að lifa lífi sínu.
Alma er doktor í heimspeki og fyrrverandi háskólakennari en síðan þau Bjössi fluttu á æskuslóðir hans hefur hún kennt við grunnskólann í þorpinu og litað hárið á sér bleikt. Markús stjúpsonur hennar býr hjá þeim, þrjátíu og þriggja ára gamall og situr inni í herbergi í tölvunni dag og nótt. Pakki sem hann fær sendan í pósti einn daginn markar þáttaskil – fyrir þau öll.
Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson hefur vakið mikla athygli og hlotið tilnefningar og verðlaun fyrir skáldsögur sínar og ljóð. Saga hans, Dauði skógar, var tilnefnd til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna.
Voðaverk í Vesturbænum
990 kr.Hver ræðst á dreng á grunnskólaaldri og skilur hann eftir illa meiddan í hjólageymslu fjölbýlishúss við Tómasarhaga? Svoleiðis ráðgátu er augljóslega ekki hægt að treysta lögreglunni einni til að leysa og hin nýstofnaða Vesturbæjarvakt, með Eddu í broddi fylkingar, tekur málið upp á sína arma. En fleiri þurfa á Eddu að halda. Stúlku í nágrenninu berast dularfullar sendingar og samband Viktors og Snorra er komið í háaloft. Það er því í nógu að snúast fyrir eiturhressan eftirlaunaþega.
Voðaverk í Vesturbænum er sjötta bókin um Eddu á Birkimelnum og glímu hennar við flókin saka- og fjölskyldumál.
Jónína Leósdóttir hefur skrifað tvær vinsælar glæpasagnaseríur, allt hörkuspennandi sögur sem kitla hláturtaugarnar og ríghalda frá upphafi til enda.
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The Book of the New Sun – Volume 2: Sword and Citadel
Original price was: 3.690 kr..1.845 kr.Current price is: 1.845 kr..An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. The torturer’s apprentice, Severian, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners, is now the Lictor of Thrax, a city far distant from his home. But it is not long before Severian must flee this city, too, and journey again into the world.
Embattled by friends and enemies alike, pursued by monstrous creatures, the one-time torturer’s apprentice must overcome hitherto unimagined perils, as he moves closer to fulfilling his ultimate destiny. This edition contains the concluding two volumes of this four-volume novel, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch.
Nóvella – Ævintýrið
3.790 kr.Í þessari bók eru birtar tvær sígildar sögur eftir Goethe sem notið hafa mikillar hylli meðal bókmenntaunnenda allt frá því þær komu fyrst fyrir almenningssjónir fyrir tveimur öldum.
Þetta eru sögurnar Nóvella, um söngelska drenginn með flautuna og ljónið og tigrísdýrið sem sleppa úr búrum sínum hjá mannfólkinu, og Ævintýrið, um grænu slönguna og fögru liljuna þar sem vafurlogar og konungar koma við sögu.
Tvær töfrandi frásagnir, samdar af mikilli list.
Jón Bjarni Atlason annaðist útgáfuna, íslenskaði Nóvellu og ritaði eftirmála.
Kristján Árnason og Þórarinn Kristjánsson íslenskuðu Ævintýrið.
Þýski menningarjöfurinn Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) var skáld, leikskáld, skáldsagnahöfundur, náttúruvísindamaður, leikhússtjóri, stjórnmálamaður, gagnrýnandi og listamaður. Meðal frægustu verka hans er leikritið Fást (Faust) og skáldsögurnar Raunir Werthers unga (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) og Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
Ég heyrði ugluna kalla á mig
4.390 kr.Í Kingcome-byggð við norðvesturströnd Kanada hefur fólk búið öldum saman í sátt og samlyndi við náttúruna. En nútíminn hefur hafið innreið sína með tilheyrandi vandamálum og aldagamalt veiðimannasamfélagið á undir högg að sækja. Ungur prestur sest að í byggðinni og í samvistum við innfædda öðlast hann nýjan skilning á lífinu, ekki síst mætti kærleikans.
Baron Bagge
2.490 kr.Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing… Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso, Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke, triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.
A Confirmed Bachelor
2.490 kr.Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons.
Arthur Schnitzler’s tumultuous psychodrama remains as startling now as it did on first publication.
Lady L.
2.490 kr.‘Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale’
In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and hopeless sycophants, Lady L. is celebrating her eightieth birthday. But as the guests disperse, she feels the undeniable pull of a mysterious pavilion in the lush grounds, and the terrible secret she buried there many years ago .
The Chimes
2.490 kr.Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.
Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author’s beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry’s meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.
Strákurinn sem las Jules Verne
4.390 kr.Ég tók upp bókina, sneri henni við og las nafnið Jules Verne og titilinn Grant skipstjóri og börn hans prentað gylltum stöfum á litaða kápumynd sem sýndi furðulegan leiðangur í undarlegu landslagi. „Hvar fékkstu þessa bók?“ spurði ég.
Strákurinn sem las Jules Verne er áhrifamikil söguleg skáldsaga sem gerist á Spáni á fimmta áratug síðustu aldar. Nino er níu ára gamall og elst upp í búðum Þjóðvarðliðsins í bænum Fuensanta de Martos. Sumarið 1947 kemur hinn dularfulli Pepe Portúgali til bæjarins og sest þar að í gamalli, yfirgefinni myllu. Pepe verður besti vinur hins veiklulega og lágvaxna Ninos.
Vinskapur þeirra og lestur bóka Jules Verne verður til þess að Nino fer að sjá skæruhernaðinn á heimaslóðum sínum undir forystu hins goðsagnakennda leiðtoga Cencerro í nýju ljósi. En Nino gætir þess vandlega að halda því fyrir sig hvers hann verður áskynja.
Við höfum alltaf átt heima í kastalanum
4.390 kr.Í þessari mögnuðu skáldsögu kynnumst við systrunum Merricat og Constance sem hefur verið útskúfað úr samfélagi þorpsbúa vegna skelfilegra atburða í fortíð þeirra. Þær lifa fábrotnu en hamingjuríku lífi á ættaróðali sínu í útjaðri þorpsins þar til tilveru þeira er ógnað af utanaðkomandi öflum.
Hrollvekjandi saga um múgæsingu, einangrun, ást og mannfyrirlitningu.
„Dulúðarfull og afar vel gerð saga.“ – The New York Times Book Review
Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir íslenskaði.
Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) hefur stundum verið kölluð fánaberi gotneskra bókmennta. Áhrifa hennar gætir víða í verkum þekktra höfunda, svo sem Stephens King og Neils Gaiman. Ein bók hefur komið út eftir hana á íslensku, Líf á meðal villimanna í þýðingu Gyrðis Elíassonar. Við höfum alltaf átt heima í kastalanum er af mörgum talin hennar besta bók.
Night Flight
2.490 kr.Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.
Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author’s beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry’s meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
3.490 kr.In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.
This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss gives way to memories, the little unit of three starts to heal.
Max Porter’s extraordinary debut – part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief – marked the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent. Ten years on, readers continue to discover and fall in love with Grief is the Thing With Feathers.
Valencia
3.690 kr.The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea’s classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts.
Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco’s riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone.
‘Hilarious, euphoric, perspicacious and punk – the book that showed so many of us how writing can be real’ – Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar
‘One of the few truly life changing books I’ve encountered’ – Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby
Hop-Frog
2.490 kr.Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is such an affront to decency, but you will certainly never forget it.
Lois the Witch
2.490 kr.Beware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this is Salem, in 1691, where rumours fly on the wind and witchcraft is abroad. Lois Barclay, cursed in childhood, is a stranger in a strange land – and the devil will work his mischief on Lois’s neighbours before the season of madness is out.
Mammoth
3.990 kr.Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work – all in pursuit of life in the raw.
This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar’s wild voice.