Kona að hálfu
4.390 kr.Ponna og Kali reyna hvað þau geta til að eignast barn en allt kemur fyrir ekki. Síðasta hálmstráið er lokakvöld árlegrar musterishátíðar, þegar allir karlar eru guðir, en það gæti reynst þeim dýrkeypt.
Perumal Murugan (f. 1966) er þekktasti rithöfundur Tamli Nadu-héraðs á Indlandi og jafnframt eini tamílski höfundurinn sem hlotið hefur tilnefningu til alþjóðlegu Booker-verðlaunanna. Lýsingar hans á helgisiðum héraðsins í Kona að hálfu vöktu mikla reiði trúarhópa á svæðinu og mátti Murugan sæta ofsóknum og ákærum, sem hæstiréttur í Madras ógilti síðar. Kona að hálfu hefur verið þýdd á átján tungumál. Áður hefur komið út á íslensku bókin Saga af svartri geit eftir sama höfund.
Roof Beneath Their Feet
4.390 kr.First publication (outside of India) for this playful and moving masterpiece of psychological intrigue and feminist space-making by the International Booker winner.
In this Indian modern classic by the International Booker Prize-winning author, roofs are meant for wild things, for romance and for play. They are realms of freedom – freedom from the male gaze, sexual freedom and freedom from society. Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that transcends time and memory.
‘One of the finest Hindi writers, Geetanjali has created for herself a thoughtful, lyrical and contemporary fictional world, which is free from moral posturing and political hectoring. And Rahul Soni’s English translation of The Roof Beneath Their Feet is attentive to its poetic nuances and intelligently responsive to its complexity.’ – Alok Bhalla
‘In The Roof Beneath Their Feet, Geetanjali Shree has created a dazzling, multifaceted narrative that plays around with shifting time and perception, leading the reader on a wild journey as only she can. Rahul Soni’s fleet-footed translation keeps up with Shree’s pyrotechnics, nimbly evoking a world like no other.’ –Jeremy Tiang
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
4.690 kr.When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart.
Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her family in India, fearing she is haunted by a dark spell cast by an artist to whom she had once turned for intimacy and inspiration. Sunny, a struggling journalist resettled in New York City, is attempting to flee his imperious mother and the violence of his warring clan. Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny embark on a search for happiness together as they confront the many alienations of our modern world.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists.
ERODE
4.390 kr.ERODE is Biswamit Dwibedy’s fourth full-length collection of poetry and brings together his first out-of-print book, Ozalid, and the expansion and continuation of that work into Erode. As a single collection, these sequences unfold in movements of erasure and collage. What emerges is a poetics of accumulation and subtraction, a method of excavation that reveals the personal buried within the communal, the lyric submerged in the residual. If erasure is a form of attention, then ERODE listens acutely—to language, to silence, to the faint signal of the other. With a sensibility both spare and lush, ERODE traces the shifting terrain of meaning, where fragments flare into wholeness and then dissolve again.
Saga af svartri geit
3.990 kr.Dagsgömul, agnarsmá geit kemst óvænt í hendur fátæks, aldraðs bónda sem ásamt konu sinni fórnar öllu til að koma huðnukiðinu á legg. Það reynist erfitt í hörðum heimi þar sem fátækt, kúgun og uppskerubrestur eru veruleiki manna og dýra. Heillandi saga lítillar geitar.
Saga af geit og samfélagi, stétt og kærleika. Einnig saga af því hvernig lítið kraftaverk getur steypt venjulegum manneskjum í glötun. Perumal Murugan (f. 1966) er fyrsti tamílski rithöfundurinn sem gefinn er út á íslensku. Hann hefur hlotið fjölmörg verðlaun og viðurkenningar fyrir verk sín.