Orlanda
3.490 kr.There’s a voice in Aline’s head: a voice that wants out. Brash, boisterous and sexually adventurous, this voice seems to be the antithesis of Aline, a prim literature professor for whom each day promises to be as quiet and conventional as the last. That is until, after thirty-five years of imprisonment, her alter ego breaks free.
Taking on a life of his own, Orlanda – Aline’s second self – slips into the taut, rugged body of a young man. As Aline continues unaware, Orlanda follows, dragging gleeful chaos in his wake, vowing to leave both their existences forever altered. A bewitching fable, an androgynous dream, Orlanda is one woman’s reckoning with all the hidden sides of her soul.
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.
Nafnabókin
1.290 kr.Og þannig bar það til að hún varð virtasti tossi í Frakklandi.
Þegar Lucette varð ólétt var hún ákveðin í að barnið hennar fengi nafn sem hæfði stórkostlegri framtíð þess. Faðirinn hafði aðrar hugmyndir um nafngjöfina. Það varð þeirra beggja bani. Stúlka fæddist og fékk nafnið Plectrude og var komið í fóstur hjá móðursystur sinni.
Og Plectrude beið sannarlega glæst framtíð. Hún varð ballerína og önnur eins dansfegurð hafði ekki sést fyrr. En það er enginn dans á rósum að vera framúrskarandi ballerina.Amélie Nothomb er vinsælasti höfundur Frakklands um þessar mundir og eru bækur hennar þýddar á fjölmargar heimstungur. Áður hefur komið út eftir hana á íslensku bókin Undrun og skjálfti.
Guðrún Vilmundardóttir þýddi.