The Red Book of Farewells
4.890 kr.Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening in a series of farewells—to her mother, to the idealism of youth, to friends and lovers, and finally to her grown daughter. The novel embeds readers in a delirious Finland, where art and communist politics are hopelessly intertwined, and where queer love, still a crime, thrives in underground bars. But then one morning in 2002, on a remote island off the coast of Finland, the narrator Pirkko Saisio informs her publisher that she’s accidentally deleted her latest manuscript, The Red Book of Farewells. Playful and mysterious, The Red Book of Farewells is a work that stoically embraces the small revolutions of moving on.
Notes from an Island
3.990 kr.For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island’s austere charms. Notes from an Island, offers both a memoir of, and homage to, this beloved island home. Tove’s spare prose, and Tuulikki’s subtle washes and aquatints, combine to form a work of meditative beauty.
This edition includes the first UK publication of Tove’s acclaimed 1961 essay/prose poem, The Island.
A Winter Book: Selected Stories
3.690 kr.Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith.
A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) plus seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.
Norma
990 kr.Norma Ross stendur skyndilega ein uppi þegar móðir hennar lætur lífið á voveiflegan hátt. Missir hennar er mikill því þær voru ekki bara mæðgur heldur áttu þær saman vel falið leyndarmál. Á heimili móður sinnar finnur Norma ljósmyndir og vídeóupptökur sem opna augu hennar fyrir margslungnum sannleikanum um eigið líf og fortíðina og um tilveruna í heimi þar sem engum er að treysta. Þetta er myrk og dularfull fantasía um kvenlega fegurð, flókin fjölskyldubönd, óprúttin viðskipti og skipulagða glæpastarfsemi sem teygir anga sína víða.
Sofi Oksanen hefur hlotið mikla athygli og margháttuð verðlaun og viðurkenningar fyrir verk sín. Norma er fjórða bók hennar sem kemur út á íslensku í þýðingu Sigurðar Karlssonar.
