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A Gentleman in Moscow
Original price was: 3.490 kr..2.792 kr.Current price is: 2.792 kr..On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.
Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
Baron Bagge
2.490 kr.Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing… Alexander Lernet-Holenia, championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso, Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke, triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.
Wandering Stars
3.490 kr.Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America’s war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.
James
3.490 kr.The Mississippi River, 1861.
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.
So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . .
Aldrei nema vinnukona
1.290 kr.Aldrei nema vinnukona er sjálfstætt framhald bókarinnar Aldrei nema kona sem kom út 2020.
Höfundurinn, Sveinbjörg Sveinbjörnsdóttir, hefur þýtt bækur og sjónvarpsefni auk þess að gefa út söguna Aldrei nema kona. Sú bók hefur notið mikilla vinsælda, einkum fyrir glögga mynd af kjörum kvenna á 18. og 19. öld.
Eins og í fyrri bókinni eru öll nöfn, tímasetningar og stærri viðburðir sannleikanum samkvæmir og stuðst við bréf og opinber skjalagögn auk ýmissa rita og vefsíðna sem fjalla um þennan tíma.
Í þessari bók fer fram tvennum sögum, af ferðinni frá Íslandi til Ameríku og minningarbrotum Þuríðar Guðmundsdóttur úr vistum í Skagafirði og Húnavatnssýslum.
