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.
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.
Slags
4.390 kr.Once a slag, always a slag?
It’s the 1990s. Sarah is 15, obsessed with boy bands, sex and getting drunk on Malibu. Most of all, she’s hung up on her teacher, Mr Keaveney.
Fast forward 26 years. Sarah is 41, the last of the party girls. But the mad nights out are losing their shine. And her teenage dreams are now distant, queasy memories.
There’s only one thing for it: an adventure. So, Sarah sets off with her sister Juliette on a whisky-fuelled campervan trip across Scotland.
The sisters have never been alike, but they know all the dark corners of each other’s history – and it’s time to dig up some demons, kicking and screaming.
Because the things that once defined us shouldn’t define us forever, should they?
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.
