Óljós
5.490 kr.Þetta er saga sem var skrifuð til þess að hún yrði ekki birt og myndi gleymast. Enginn átti nokkru sinni að lesa hana. Eiginlegur tilgangur sögunnar var einmitt sá að koma ekki fyrir sjónir lesenda. Hún dregur fram í sviðsljósið það sem við höfum öll ímugust á: hversdagsleikann, merkingarleysið, átakanleika þess að vera hugsandi manneskja í veröld án ramma, án stefnu, án markmiðs.
Vonum það besta
990 kr.Nýbökuð móðir með barn á brjósti fær furðulegan tölvupóst frá manni sínum: Lykilorðið að tölvunni hans og nánari upplýsingar í skjalinu „Ef ég dey“. En. Vonum það besta!
Stuttu síðar deyr hann.
Sagan segir frá ást sem fæðist, hversdagslífi og skelfilegu áfalli. Ung kona fær það á heilann að hún eigi sök á dauða manns síns, hún hafi farið of geyst, hún stendur frammi fyrir óbærilegri sorg og svo þeirri óhjákvæmilegu staðreynd að lífið heldur áfram.
Þetta er fyrsta skáldsaga Carolinu Setterwall, sem vakti mikla athygli þegar hún kom út í Svíþjóð árið 2018 og er væntanleg í rúmlega 30 löndum.
The Edge of the Alphabet
3.990 kr.Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat, an Irishman who claims to have many friends but treats people with carelessness. Alike in their alienation, all three embark on a new life in London, piecing together an existence in the margins of the urban world.
The Edge of the Alphabet, the third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s foremost writers of the twentieth century, is a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, published here on the centenary of her birth with a new foreword by Catherine Lacey.
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.
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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.. 
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.”
Stol
990 kr.Stol er áhrifamikil saga um dauðann, tímann og lífið; viðleitnina til að halda í minningarnar og nýta tíma sem er á þrotum. Frásögnin er hjartnæm og grípandi en um leið leikandi létt og fyndin, ekki síst lýsingin á höktandi samskiptum feðganna sem þurfa að takast á við glataðar aðstæður – og kveðjast.
Baddi er ráðvilltur ungur maður sem kemur heim til Íslands til að annast dauðvona föður sinn, Hörð. Heilaæxli hefur rænt hann svo mörgu sem áður var sjálfgefið og hlutverk feðganna hafa snúist við. Saman fara þeir akandi á gömlum jeppa út úr bænum, en ferðin er feigðarflan. Hörður er óðum að tapa dómgreind sinni, minni og máli, og Baddi ræður illa við aðstæðurnar og ábyrgðina á ósjálfbjarga föður sínum.
Björn Halldórsson hefur áður gefið út smásagnasafnið Smáglæpi sem fékk afar góðar viðtökur. Stol er fyrsta skáldsaga hans.