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Shy
3.490 kr.This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a teenage boy.
He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.
He is feeling a little sorry for himself.
Shy is a novel about imagination, guilt and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.
Perfection
3.990 kr.Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media. But beyond the images, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Work becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. Frustrated that their progressive politics amount to little more in practice than boycotting Uber, tipping in cash, or never eating tuna, Anna and Tom make a fruitless attempt at political activism. Feeling increasingly trapped in their picture-perfect life, the couple takes ever more radical steps in the pursuit of an authenticity and a sense of purpose perennially beyond their grasp. Superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection is a taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, scathing and brilliantly affecting.
Change
3.490 kr.Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination and violence in his working-class hometown – so he sets out to study in Amiens, and, later, at university in Paris. He sheds the provincial ‘Eddy’ for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug dealers alike.
Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else. Change is at once a personal odyssey, a story of dreams, friendship and the perils of leaving the past behind, and a profound portrait of a society divided by class, inequality and power.
Translated by John Lambert
Ru
990 kr.Á frönsku þýðir orðið ru lítill lækur, eða í óeiginlegri merkingu eitthvað sem rennur á borð við tár eða blóð. Á víetnömsku þýðir orðið vögguvísa eða sú sem svæfir og huggar.
Árið er 1968 og stríð geisar í Víetnam. Fjöldi fólks freistar þess að flýja land í von um betra líf. Þar á meðal er ellefu ára stúlka sem flýr yfirstéttarlíf í Saigon, með viðkomu í malasískum flóttamannabúðum, alla leið til Kanada. Þar verður hún bátaflóttamaður í smábæ og þarf að laga sig að nýjum lifnaðarháttum og nýju tungumáli.
Inn í söguna fléttast örlög fleiri Víetnama, í Saigon og í Kanada, bæði á stríðs- og friðartímum.
Höfundurinn, Kim Thúy, var líkt og sögupersóna verksins ein af bátafólkinu svonefnda og er meðal frægustu höfunda Kanada í dag. Ru hefur verið þýdd á fjölda tungumála og unnið til margra verðlauna.