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Ungfrú Ísland (kilja)
Original price was: 4.590 kr..3.890 kr.Current price is: 3.890 kr.. - -40%
Ótrúlega skynugar skepnur
4.690 kr.Tova Sullivan er nýorðin ekkja og farin að vinna við ræstingar í Sædýrasafni Sowell Bay. Það hefur alltaf átt vel við hana að hafa nóg fyrir stafni, ekki síst þegar erfiðleikar steðja að. Eins og þegar Eric, átján ára gamall sonur hennar, hvarf á dularfullan hátt þrjátíu árum fyrr.
Sædýrasafnið er fullt af furðuskepnum en sú sem vekur mesta athygli Tovu er geðstirður kyrrahafskolkrabbi að nafni Marcellus. Smám saman myndast sérstæð vinátta með ræstingakonunni og kolkrabbanum, sem reynist luma á dýrmætum upplýsingum um hvarf Erics. En tíminn til að miðla þeim er að renna út.
Ótrúlega skynugar skepnur er hnyttin og heillandi saga um uppgjör við fortíðina sem farið hefur sigurför um heiminn; hún hefur verið þýdd á yfir þrjátíu tungumál og selst í meira en tveimur milljónum eintaka.
Nanna Brynhildur Þórsdóttir þýddi.
The Book of Disappearance
4.390 kr.Alaa is haunted by his grandmother”s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa’s neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of their collective disappearance.
That search, and Ariel’s reactions to it, intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. Between the stories of Alaa and Ariel are the people of Jaffa and Tel Aviv – café patrons, radio commentators, flower-cutters – against whose ordinary lives these fissures and questions play out.
Boulder
3.690 kr.Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname ‘Boulder’. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can’t bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn’t know how to say no – and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien.
With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her priorities lie, and whether her yearning for freedom can truly trump her yearning for love. Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world – and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.