How do you turn old gold into priceless treasure? At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigurlina finds herself in a hopeless situation. She is the motherless daughter of an eccentric father, who expects her to spend her life hel...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781948830232)
The book that will make you understand what our future holds for us, if we dont act immediately. A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Icelands most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist...Daugiau...
A young academic goes to ever greater lengths to keep a secret that sits at the heart of her work, and in doing so begins to lose her grip on her thesis, her life and then her sanity. What follows is a remarkable exploration of intellectual integrit...Daugiau...
A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Icelands most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasnt writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasnt a speci...Daugiau...
While studying a seventeenth-century diary, the protagonist of Little Dark Room uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist. This discovery promises to change her academic career, and life in general . . . until...Daugiau...
Monica Ali, Roma Tearne, Lisa Appignanesi, Bernardine Evaristo, Patrick Gale, Emma Parsons, Ian Sansom, Jonathan Skinner, Gillian Slovo, Lytton Smith...
These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass—refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights, peopl...Daugiau...
An ambitious epic novel showcases the brutal elements of human nature and mother nature alike in Icelands most desolate region Sigurdsson is without a doubt one of the best writers of his generation. —Frettabladi...Daugiau...
The World Cup, La Grande Bouffe, and the post office drive this journey through Reykjavik and the narrators mind. A thirty-something aspiring writer, G., encounters a former romantic rival at the post office, a man he once wished didn...Daugiau...
Icelands first modernist novel is a wild excursion through the mind of a senile man trying to write his memoirs. “Guðbergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller,...Daugiau...
In The Outlaw, the third and final volume in his acclaimed trilogy, former Reykjavík mayor and comedian Jón Gnarr returns to face the dark teenage years with his signature humor and candor. Raging with music, poetry, life, lo...Daugiau...
The second volume in former Reykjavik mayor Gnarrs childhood memoir-trilogy focuses on discovering punk music and rebelling against society...Daugiau...
The rollercoaster childhood story of the Icelandic comedian turned international celebrity whom Noam Chomsky called his "favorite mayor on Earth."...Daugiau...
How do we react to disaster, to political uprising, to spectacle? With relief missions, donations, and what words? While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It, the second book by Lytton Smith, explores the relations...Daugiau...
