I Who Have Never Known Men
3.490 kr.Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?
Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before.
But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl – the fortieth prisoner – sits alone an outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
Harm
3.490 kr.When wealthy doctor Ríkarður Magnússon goes to sleep in his luxurious caravan and doesn’t wake up, detectives Guðgeir Fransson and Elsa Guðrún are called to the Westman Islands to investigate what looks like murder.
Suspicion immediately falls on Ríkharður’s young, beautiful and deeply troubled girlfriend – but there are no easy answers in this case as they are drawn into family feuds, disgruntled friends and colleagues, and the presence of a group of fitness-obsessed over-achievers with secrets of their own.
As their investigation makes progress, Guðgeir and Elsa Guðrún are forced to confront their own preconceptions and prejudices as they uncover the sinister side of Ríkharður’s past.
Harm is the third novel featuring the soft-spoken Reykjavík detective Guðgeir Fransson to appear in English. Sólveig Pálsdóttir again weaves a complex web of intrigue that plays out in the Westman Islands, remote southern Iceland and Reykjavík while asking some searching questions about things society accepts at face value – and others it is not prepared to tolerate.
Mannsævi
990 kr.Andreas Egger er fluttur kornabarn í lítið fjallaþorp í Ölpunum rétt eftir aldamótin 1900. Þar á hann illa vist en persónueinkenni þróast með honum; seigla, líkamlegur styrkur, hneigð til einveru. Egger verður maður verka fremur en orða. Ungur maður ræður hann sig í vinnu hjá verktökum sem hyggjast reisa kláf upp á fjallstind, nútíminn heldur innreið sína í þorpið og við það breytist öll tilvera íbúanna.
Mannsævi eftir Robert Seethaler er afar áhrifamikil bók um mannlega reisn og hæfni til að sigrast á erfiðum aðstæðum. Um leið og saga Eggers er sögð í meitluðum og áreynslulausum stíl, endurspeglar hún á margvíslegan hátt sögu tuttugustu aldarinnar – sögu einnar mannsævi.
Mannsævi var tilnefnd til Booker-verðlaunanna árið 2016.
Mannsævi er fimmta bók Roberts Seethaler, sem auk þess að vera rithöfundur starfar sem leikari og býr í Berlín.
