Time Tunnel: Stories and Essays
4.690 kr.“China’s Virginia Woolf.” —The Wall Street Journal
Now in English for the first time, stories and essays about love, sex, and migration by one of the greatest Chinese authors of the twentieth century.
Time Tunnel offers a new selection of stories and essays, some translated for the first time into English, drawn from every stage of the career of the great Chinese writer Eileen Chang, from her debut in Japanese-occupied Shanghai through her flight, following the Revolution, to Hong Kong and America, to her last years as a bus-riding flaneuse on the highways and byways in Los Angeles.
“Genesis,” left out of the two volumes of stories with which Chang made her name in the 1940s, shows her transfixing eye for visual detail and aptitude for brilliant verbal description, even as it looks forward to the improvisatory, open-ended approach to narrative she developed in later years. “Blossoms Afloat, Flowers Adrift” addresses the perils and uncertainties—the vertigo—of exile, while in the late masterpiece “Those Old Schoolmates They’re All Quite Classy Now,” Chang looks back across the better part of a lifetime to the world she came from and the changes that have come with the years.
Essays like “Return to the Frontier” and “New England Is China,” both written in English, broaden our wonder at the effervescent and melancholy genius of a transformative modern writer.
Every One Still Here
3.490 kr.A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.
Her Body & Other Parties
3.490 kr.In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.
A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store’s dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
12 konur
14.990 kr.12 konur er óvenjuleg bók á íslenzkum bókamarkaði og mun vekja óskipta athygli bókmenntafólks.
Sögurnar í 12 konum spegla mynd nútímakonunnar frá jafnmörgum hliðum, frá bernsku til fullorðinsára, bók um konur eftir konu.
12 konur er fyrsta bók Svövu Jakobsdóttur.
Ljósastikan – Helgisögur
1.290 kr.Austurríski rithöfundurinn Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) er íslenzkum lesendum vel kunnur. Af bókum sem birzt hafa eftir hann hér á landi og náð sérstökum vinsældum, má nefna hina snilldarlegu sjálfsævisögu Veröld sem var og sagnasafnið Manntafl. En ritverk Zweigs njóta slíkrar almannahylli hvarvetna um lönd, að samkvæmt opinberum skýrslum eru verk aðeins fárra höfunda þýdd jafnmikið á önnur mál.
Sú bók Stefans Zweigs sem nú kemur út í íslenzkri þýðingu sr. Páls Þorleifssonar, flytur flokk sagna þar sem hið gamalkunna ritform, helgisagan, er sveigt undir lögmál nýrrar sögutækni og hafið á hærra svið. Höfundur leitar fanga í indversku og gyðinglegu trúarlífi og fjallar með ýmsu móti um vanda mannlegrar breytni. Sögurnar bera öll beztu listareinkenni höfundarins, þær eru gæddar næmri innsýn hans í sálarlíf fólks og eru ritaðar í myndauðugum stíl.
