On the Calculation of Volume IV
3.990 kr.It feels as though we have each been walking along our own path in the same forest. And now, we have found our way to a clearing and suddenly we see that we share not only the clearing but the forest too. You think it begins when you meet, but in fact, our stories were already entwined.
they
3.990 kr.They go for a walk by the playing fields, the anemones are out.
In the small Danish town of Rødby, a mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter live uneventfully, each day marked by routine and a quiet intimacy. Together, they are a family; complete, content – and fragile.
When the mother begins to feel unwell, everything and nothing changes. They go about their lives, talk about anything but the diagnosis. The daughter takes tentative steps into adulthood. Still, illness – and the possibility of loss – cast an expansive shadow over the rituals of daily life.
they is a tender and piercing exploration of a mother–daughter relationship, brought into startling focus by Helle Helle’s distinctive, immediate prose.
Vi, de druknede
1.290 kr.Marstal, en flekke på en o i Det Sydfynske Øhav, et fjernt sted i en lille nation.
I 1800-tallet bliver Marstal hjemsted for nye genera- tioner af mænd, der drevet af udlængsel sætter sig for at krydse verdenshavene. Det er mænd, der lever i et evigt opgør: med havet, med hinanden og med de kvinder, de elsker, men først og fremmest med deres egne e mørke sider.
Havet kræver sin pris af mænd som den fandenivoldske Laurids, der efter et tabt søslag aldrig bliver den samme igen. Og sønnen Albert, der på Stillehavet leder efter sin forsvundne far, men i stedet kommer hjem med et skrumpehoved. Og Knud Erik, som med hovedet fuldt af Alberts skrøner bliver stillet over for et moralsk umuligt valg i Anden Verdenskrig. Også familierne bliver havets ofre; de fædreløse børn, de druknedes enker – og Klara, Marstals dødsengel.
Fra Newfoundlands klippekyster til Samoas plantager, fra Tasmaniens lyssky barer til det nordlige Ruslands ødemark er Vi, de druknede en episk beretning om fire generationer af mænd fra Marstal, deres længsel efter fjerne horisonter og kampen for at vende hjem.
En historie om mod, hensynsløshed, vold, lidenskab og tab.
On the Calculation of Volume III
3.990 kr.Tara Selter is no longer alone. Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern: a man has changed his shirt. The man is Henry Dale, and he remembers all the days that have come before.He knows that time has fallen out of joint. Now they are two of a kind – trapped in the eighteenth of November, but no longer alone.
Together they learn to share their present; their voices grow hoarse recounting their small battles against it and their bewilderment at the disintegrating world. Henry sees things differently to Tara: he does not think that time will put itself back together and he does not think that the future will come around. But he makes her realise that she is no longer the same person she was before this fault in time. And he makes her believe that there may be others to find within it.
Ferðabíó herra Saitos (notuð)
1.990 kr.„Ég var getin á dansgólfi í Buenos Aires árið 1927.“
Þannig hefst saga Litu sem fæðist og elst upp í nunnuklaustri ásamt kornungri móður sinni sem hefur lítinn áhuga á barnauppeldi en elskar tangó og fallega skó. Líf mæðgnanna tekur óvænta stefnu þegar þær þurfa að flýja heimkynni sín og enda óvænt á afskekktri eyju undan ströndum Kanada þar sem þær fá inni á sjómannaheimilinu Betlehem. Smám saman kynnast þær samfélagi eyjarinnar og þar eignast Lita vinkonu í fyrsta skipti, hina heyrnarlausu Oonu McGregor. En þegar herra Saito mætir til eyjarinnar með ferðabíóið sitt opnast nýr ævintýraheimur fyrir Litu og ekkert verður eins og áður.
Annette Bjergfeldt hefur hlotið afar góðar viðtökur fyrir Ferðabíó herra Saitos enda er hér á ferð heillandi saga með óvenjulegu sögusviði og eftirminnilegum persónum.
Jón St. Kristjánsson þýddi.
Spámennirnir í Botnleysufirði
1.290 kr.Nýlendustöðin Sykurtoppur, Vestur-Grænlandi, árið 1793.
Konu er spyrnt fram af hengiflugi svo hún hrapar til bana. Kristniboðinn Morten Falck er illa farinn á sál og líkama og efast um sjálfan sig og köllun sína. Hann vill umfram allt komast burt en óttast að verða sendur heim í hlekkjum. Grænlenskur aðstoðarprestur hans tekst á við sorg sína og reiði. Kaupmaðurinn hefur tögl og hagldir í nýlendustöðinni en undir kraumar óvild milli heimamanna og nýlenduherranna.
Inni í Botnleysufirði hafa kristnir Grænlendingar sagt sig úr lögum við Danaveldi undir forystu spámannanna Habakúks og Maríu Magdalenu. Þau hafa fundið sinn eigin sannleika og láta sig dreyma um frelsi, jafnrétti og bræðralag, þótt langt sé til byltingarborgarinnar Parísar.
Skáldsagan Spámennirnir í Botnleysufirði er lauslega byggð á sönnum atburðum í dansk-norska konungsveldinu í lok átjándu aldar. Söguefnið spannar mannlíf höfuðborgarinnar einsog það blasir við norskum guðfræðinema. Nýlendubyggðir Grænlands með sínum öfgum og endemum, sjómannslíf á langferðum, sveitir Noregs og logandi stræti brunans mikla í Kaupmannahöfn árið 1795. Kynngimögnuð frásögnin og einstakur stílgaldur Kims Leine tryggðu honum Bókmenntaverðlaun Norðurlandaráðs árið 2013.
Þessi margverðlaunaða dansk-grænlenska saga hefur komið út víða um heiminn og birtist nú íslenskum lesendum í frábærri þýðingu Jóns Halls Stefánssonar.
Kim Leine er danskur rithöfundur, fæddur 1961. Hann er hjúkrunarfræðingur að mennt og starfaði sem slíkur á Grænlandi árum saman. Fyrsta skáldsaga Leines, Kalak, kom út árið 2007. Í kjölfarið fylgdu Valdemarsdag, 2008, og Tunu, 2009. Spámennirnir í Botnleysufirði litu svo dagsins ljós árið 2012 og fyrir hana hlaut Leine m.a. Bókmenntaverðlaun Norðurlandaráðs 2013.
On the Calculation of Volume II
3.990 kr.Tara Selter is searching for a way back into time. Tara has been stuck in the 18th of November for over a year’s worth of days. She still wakes up to the same newspapers, and the same blank faces when she explains that she has seen this all before.
Until one morning, she boards a train and finds herself in a new day. It is still the eighteenth of November, but the faces are different, the weather is colder. She realises that she has found a way out of her endless autumn.
By moving across Europe rather than through time, she can collect the ingredients for the seasons: the thin film of ice on puddles, the fresh spring breeze, the blazing summer sun. As she travels, she begins to hope for a new future, one that will run in parallel to the eighteenth of November, one that she must build for herself.
On the Calculation of Volume I
3.990 kr.Tara Selter has slipped out of time. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday.
She comes to know the shape of the day like the back of her hand – the grey morning light in her Paris hotel; the moment a blackbird breaks into song; her husband’s surprise at seeing her return home unannounced. But for everyone around her, this day is lived for the first and only time. They do not remember the other 18ths of November, and they do not believe her when she tries to explain.
As Tara approaches her 365th 18th of November, she can’t shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there’s a way to escape.
