Kortabók skýjanna
4.890 kr.Sex sögusvið sem skarast á sex tímaskeiðum með sex ólíkum stílbrigðum.
Þessi magnaða skáldsaga rekur sig inn í komandi aldir og aftur til baka. Á því ferðalagi tengjast sögupersónur ólíkra tíma, örlög þeirra fléttast saman, stórar siðferðilegar spurningar kvikna og við blasir næsta ógnvekjandi framtíðarsýn. Kortabók skýjanna er rómuð fyrir stílsnilld höfundar, hugmyndaríkan söguþráð, óvægna þjóðfélagsgagnrýni og hugvitssamlegan en jafnframt hjartnæman frásagnarmáta.
Helgi Ingólfsson íslenskaði.
Grasið syngur
1.990 kr.Grasið syngur er saga Mary, hvítrar konu í Rhódesíu, sem kveður tilbreytingarlaust líf í borginni og hafnar í gæfusnauðu hjónabandi með bónda nokkrum. Hún hefur andúð á lífinu í sveitinni og lítur niður á þá innfæddu. Af ofstækisfullri hörku snýst hún gegn svörtum þjóni sínum sem hún bæði laðast að og fyrirlítur, uns valdið snýst að lokum í höndum hennar.
Grasið syngur, fyrsta skáldsaga Doris Lessing, skapaði höfundi sínum skjóta frægð og hefur farið sigurför um allan heim. Grasið syngur vitnar um djúpan mannskilning og tilfinningahita þessa mikla rithöfundar. Doris Lessing lýsir sambandi hvítra og svartra af hreinskilni og vægðarleysi en einstæðri réttlætiskennd.
Utz
1.290 kr.Kaspar Utz á óviðjafnanlegt safn af Meissenpostulíni, matarílát og skrautmuni, sem honum hefur tekist að varðveita á tímum margvíslegra ógna. Hann er aðalsmaður af gamla skólanum, sem býr með postulínssafni sínu og þjónustustúlku í tveggja herbergja íbúð sinni í Prag. Sögumaður kemur á fund hans og verður margs vísari um merkileg örlög á umbrotatímum.
Bruce Chatwin lýsir hér sálarlífi ástríðusafnarans og afdrifum gamals og sérkennilegs menningararfs í stalínisma eftirstríðsáranna. Þar spinnist inn sögur um evrópskan aðal, um gyðinga og skriffinna kommúnismans. Chatwin er næmur höfundur, og hann hefur óvenjulega og auðuga kímnigáfu.
Unnur Jökulsdóttir og Þorbjörn Magnússon þýddu.
Sporbaugar
4.390 kr.Í þessari hrífandi skáldsögu er lýst einum sólarhring í lífi sex geimfara á ferð um sporbauga jarðar. Sagt er frá lífinu í geimstöðinni þar sem geimfararnir skiptast á skoðunum, útbúa þurrkaðar máltíðir, svífa um í þyngdarlausum svefni og stunda líkamsæfingar. Brugðið er upp svipmyndum af jarðnesku lífi geimfaranna en umfram allt er bókin þó um einstaka upplifun þeirra af því að fara um geiminn á ógnarhraða og fylgjast með jörðinni snúast undir þeim, stjörnumerkjum vetrarbrautarinnar og sextán sólarupprásum og sólsetrum. Hrífandi lofsöngur til umhverfis okkar og jarðarinnar, ritaður á fögru, litríku máli.
Árni Óskarsson íslenskaði.
The House of Sleep
990 kr.Sarah is narcoleptic. Her inability to distinguish between dreams and waking reality gives rise to many misunderstandings. For Terry, a disillusioned film critic, sleep is merely a memory. For Dr Dunstan, sleep is nothing less than a global disease.Constructed to reflect the different stages of sleep, The House of Sleep is a brilliant and original comedy about the powers we acquire – and those we relinqish – when we fall asleep, and when we fall in love.
A Month in the Country
3.490 kr.A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years.
Parade
3.490 kr.Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.
In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.
A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.
The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story – about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.
Friðþæging
990 kr.Það er heitasti dagur sumarsins 1934 þegar 13 ára strákur, Briony, sér systur sína, Cecili, afklæðast og baða sig úti í garði á sveitasetri þeirra. Robbie Turner, æskuvinur hennar, stendur og horfir á.
Áður en næsti dagur rennur upp hefur líf þeirra þriggja tekið algjöra kollsteypu.
Friðþæging er í hópi meistaraverka hins virta breska rithöfundar Ian McEwans og hefur sópað til sín margvíslegum viðurkenningum.
The Chimes
2.490 kr.Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.
Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author’s beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who becomes lost in otherworldly darkness. Letter to a Hostage, Saint-Exupéry’s meditation on displacement and friendship, also explores solitude and questions the human condition.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
3.490 kr.In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.
This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow – antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss gives way to memories, the little unit of three starts to heal.
Max Porter’s extraordinary debut – part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief – marked the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent. Ten years on, readers continue to discover and fall in love with Grief is the Thing With Feathers.
Kudos
3.490 kr.A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. That woman is Faye, who is on her way to Europe to promote the book she has just published. Once she reaches her destination, the conversations she has with the people she meets – about art, about family, about politics, about love, about sorrow and joy, about justice and injustice – include the most far-reaching questions human beings ask. These conversations, the last of them on the phone with her son, rise dramatically and majestically to a beautiful conclusion.
Following the novels Outline and Transit, Kudos completes Rachel Cusk’s trilogy with overwhelming power.
Malarhjarta
4.190 kr.Yusuf er barn að aldri þegar auðugur kaupmaður af ströndinni tekur hann upp í skuldir foreldra hans. Hættuleg fegurð drengsins verður til þess að hann fylgir kaupmanninum í leiðangur inn í Tansaníu þar sem Yusuf kynnist töfrum fjallanna, víðáttu vatnanna, framandi siðum og hversu óvægið lífið getur verið. Merkilegt verk eftir Nóbelsverðlaunahafa.
Söguleg skáldsaga sem gerist í upphafi síðustu aldar eftir tansaníska rithöfundinn Abdulrazak Gurnah (f. 1948) sem hlaut Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum árið 2021. Paradís var tilnefnd til Booker-verðlaunanna og Whitbread-verðlaunanna.
Shy
3.490 kr.This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a teenage boy.
He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.
He is feeling a little sorry for himself.
Shy is a novel about imagination, guilt and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.
Blue Sisters
3.490 kr.The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever. Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she’s been working as a bouncer in LA – until a reckless act one night threatens to drive her out of the city. And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her.
Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling. When, a year later, the three of them must reunite in New York to stop the sale of their childhood home, they find that it’s only by returning to each other that they can navigate their grief, addiction and heartbreak and learn to fall in love with life again.
Við
990 kr.Lífefnafræðingurinn Douglas Petersen reynir að bjarga hjónabandinu með því að leggja upp í mikla menningarreisu um Evrópu ásamt eiginkonu og syni.
Á ferð um París, Amsterdam, Feneyjar og Flórens skerast í leikinn óður harmóníkuleikari, fjölþjóðlegir vopnasalar og lögreglan, og sú spurning verður áleitin hvort menningarreisur séu heppilegar til að bjarga hjónaböndum og bæta sambandið við börnin.
