Transit
3.490 kr.In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions – personal, moral, artistic, and practical – as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.
Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change.
Mrs Dalloway
4.990 kr.Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith’s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
Virginia Woolf’s masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923. Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter
A Room of One’s Own
2.590 kr.”But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one”s own?”
A Room of One’s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought.
Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Brontë sisters, and the tragic story of Shakespeare’s fictional sister Judith, it remains a passionate assertion for female creativity and independence in a world dominated by men.
Paradís
3.890 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.
Amsterdam
1.290 kr.Tveir af fyrrum elskhugum Mollyar Lane biðu utan bálstofukapellunnar og sneru baki í napran febrúargjóstinn. Allt hafði þegar verið sagt, en þeir sögðu það samt á ný.
Á hrollköldum febrúardegi hittast tveir gamlir félagar, Clive Linley og Vernon Halliday, við útför Mollyar Lane. Clive er mikilsmetið tónskáld en Vernon ritstjóri útbreidds dagblaðs. Dagana eftir útförina þurfa þeir félagar að glíma við vanda sem hvorugur hafði séð fyrir og verða að taka afdrifaríkar, siðferðilegar ákvarðanir. En hvers vegna Amsterdam? Í hvaða hremmingum lenda þeir Clive og Vernon?
Ian McEwan hlaut virtustu bókmenntaverðlaun Breta, Booker-verðlaunin 1998, fyrir þessa bók.
Uggi Jónsson þýddi.
