Snyrtistofan
3.490 kr.Þegar faraldur herjar á borgina neyðist sögumaður til þess að breyta snyrtistofunni sinni í Biðstofu dauðans. Hann reynir að sinna sjúklingunum ásamt skrautfiskum stofunnar en allt virðist umbreytingum háð og snýst upp í andhverfu sína.
Mario Bellatin er talinn einn áhugaverðasti samtímahöfundur Rómönsku Ameríku
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Moldin heit
4.890 kr.Ástin í lífi Karenar deyr. Hún mætir í jarðarförina óboðin, situr aftast og segir engum hver hún er. En eftir að hafa borið eina fortíð til grafar skýtur önnur upp kollinum. Hún sér Ými, kollega sinn, út um gluggann í erfidrykkjunni þar sem hann virðist ætla að fara sér að voða.
Í kjölfarið er þeim hrundið af stað í ferð þar sem þau þurfa að horfast í augu við hvaða hlutverk þau leiki hvort í annars lífi og í flóknu dansverki, og hvaða nýju hlutverk standa þeim til boða. Moldin heit allar um ástina, listina, sorg og missi. Hér er á ferðinni feikisterk skáldsaga frá nýrri og spennandi rödd í íslenskum bókmenntaheimi.
Transit
3.490 kr.In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions – personal, moral, artistic, and practical – as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.
Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change.
Aldrei nema kona
1.290 kr.Aldrei nema kona er heimildaskáldsaga sem fylgir þremur ættliðum kvenna í Skagafirði á átjándu og nítjándu öld. Þetta eru fátækar konur og lífsbaráttan er hörð en með þrautseigju og æðruleysi tekst þeim að komast af þrátt fyrir hart árferði og harðneskjulegt samfélag.
Höfundurinn Sveinbjörg Sveinbjörnsdóttir var kennari í nær 40 ár. Í þessari sögu rekur hún æviferil langmæðgna sinna í Skagafirði og byggir þar á heimildum úr kirkjubókum, manntölum, æviskrám, dómabókum og ýmsum heimildum öðrum. Sögutíminn spannar meira en hundrað ár, frá miðri átjándu öld fram yfir miðja hina nítjándu.
The Dry Heart
3.490 kr.Four years before she shoots her husband and walks to a café for a coffee, a lonely young woman living in a boarding house meets an older man called Alberto. They go for long walks along the river and on the outskirts of the city; they look like lovers, although they’re not.
Alberto doesn’t tell her anything about himself and she asks few questions. Still, with little else to distract her, she lets her imagination run wild and convinces herself to fall in love. Though he doesn’t feel the same, Alberto asks her to marry him and they have a baby. But Alberto is a man who tires quickly of everything.
The Dry Heart is a short, dark and psychologically rich novel that forensically examines how an unhappy marriage comes to end in murder.
Mrs Dalloway
4.990 kr.Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith’s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
Virginia Woolf’s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923. Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter
The Master and Margarita
4.990 kr.Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling artistic freedom for Russians everywhere. Bulgakov’s carnivalesque satire of Soviet life describes how the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow one Spring afternoon. Brimming with magic and incident, it is full of imaginary, historical, terrifying and wonderful characters, from witches, poets and Biblical tyrants to the beautiful, courageous Margarita, who will do anything to save the imprisoned writer she loves.
