Heima
4.590 kr.Dóttir hennar er ferðalangur, langt í fjarskanum. Fyrrverandi manni sínum skrifar hún lítil bréf þar sem hún rekur hvernig henni líður. Judith Hermann segir frá konu sem skilur við ýmislegt og þróar með sér mótstöðuafl. Í áhrifamiklu landslagi við ströndina verður hún önnur en áður.
Gömul veröld glatast og ný verður til.
Göngulag tímans
1.290 kr.Aðalpersóna þessarar bókar, John Franklin, er söguleg persóna sem á sinni tíð (1786-1847) var frægur sæfari og landkönnuður. Hann dreymir frá blautu barnsbeini um að komast á sjóinn en virðist þó illa til þess fallinn því hann er einkar hægur í tali og hugsun og öllum viðbrögðum og leggur annan mælikvarða á tímann en flestir í kringum hann. John kemst þó í sjóherinn er fram líða stundir, lendir í orustunum við Kaupmannahöfn og Trafalgar og virðir fyrir sér hraða og skelfilega framvindu átakanna með sinni sérstöku hægð. Síðar bíða hans og félaga hans ótrúlegar mannraunir í könnunarleiðöngrum á norðurhveli jarðar.
Þessi líflega frásögn er öðrum þræði sjóferðasaga og þroskasaga en er ekki síður ógleymanleg athugun á eðli tímans og ægivaldi hraðans. Hún gefur lesandanum hlutdeild í þeirri einstæðu reynslu sem veitist hinum hægláta.
Sten Nadolny er þýskur höfundur, fæddur árið 1942 og er búsettur í Berlín. Hann hefur skrifað nokkrar skáldsögur en langþekktust þeirra er Göngulag tímans sem þýdd hefur verið á fjölmörg tungumál.
Arthur Björgvin Bollason þýddi bókina.
Madame Bovary
3.490 kr.This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads. In an attempt to break from the drab reality of her provincial life in Normandy, Emma takes a lover, and disaster soon follows. Greedy, delusional and selfish, the character of Emma Bovary scandalised readers from the novel’s first publication in 1857, yet her magnetism is undeniable.
A landmark work in modern realism, Madame Bovary vibrates with the inner life of a woman hungry for more. Meet ten of literature’s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
The Dead Girls’ Class Trip: Selected Stories
3.690 kr.A new translation of the best and most provocative short stories by the author of Transit and The Seventh Cross.
Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth; they are also some of her most formally experimental work. This selection of Seghers’s best stories, written between 1925 and 1965, displays the range of her creativity over the years. It includes her most famous short fiction, such as the autobiographical “The Dead Girls’ Class Trip,” and others, like “Jans Is Going to Die,” that have been translated into English here for the first time. There are psychologically penetrating stories about young men corrupted by desperation and women bound by circumstance, as well as enigmatic tales of bewilderment and enchantment based on myths and legends, like “The Best Tales of Woynok, the Thief,” “The Three Trees,” and “Tales of Artemis.” In her stories, Seghers used the German language in especially unconventional and challenging ways, and Margot Bettauer Dembo’s sensitive and skilled translation preserves this distinction.
Good Girl
4.390 kr.In Berlin’s underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made her, the public housing block packed with refugees and immigrants, where the bathrooms are infested with silverfish and the walls outside are graffitied with swastikas.
Escaping into the clubs, Nila tries to outrun the shadow of her dead mother, once a feminist revolutionary; her catatonic, defeated father; and the cab-driver uncles who seem to idle on every corner. To anyone who asks, her family is Greek, not Afghani.
And then Nila meets American writer Marlowe Woods, whose literary celebrity, though fading, opens her eyes to a world of patrons and festivals, one that imbues her dreams of life as an artist with new possibility. But as she finds herself drawn further into his orbit and ugly, barely submerged tensions begin to roil and claw beneath the city’s cosmopolitan veneer, everything she hopes for, hates, and believes about herself will be challenged.
Kairos
3.490 kr.Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.
