The Brahmadells

The Brahmadells
Author: Jóanes Nielsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 9781940953663

One of the first Faroese books to be translated into English, The Brahmadells is an epic novel chronicling the lives of a particular family - nicknamed the Brahmadells - against the larger history of the Faroe Islands, from the time of Danish rule, through its national awakening, to its independence. Filled with colourful characters and various family intrigues, the novel incorporates a number of genres and styles as it shifts from individual stories to larger world issues.

Trafika Europe

Trafika Europe
Author: Andrew Singer
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 027107728X

In volume 1 of Trafika Europe, Andrew Singer gathers choice offerings from the first year of the quarterly journal of the same name. These fourteen selections—from seven women and seven men, seven poets and seven fiction writers—represent languages across the Continent, from Shetland Scots and Occitan, Latvian and Polish, Armenian, Italian, Hungarian, German, and Slovenian to Faroese and Icelandic. With some of the most accomplished writing in new translation from Europe today, this volume opens a window onto some emerging contours of European identity. Former ASCAP director of photography Mark Chester complements the writing with sumptuous black-and-white photos. The contributors are Vincenzo Bagnoli, Ewa Chrusciel, Christine DeLuca, Mandy Haggith, Stefanie Kremser, Aurélia Lassaque, Wiesław Myśliwski, Jóanes Nielsen, Edvīns Raups, László Sárközi, Marko Sosič, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Nara Vardanyan, and Māra Zālīte.

Tómas Jónsson

Tómas Jónsson
Author: Guðbergur Bergsson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781940953601

A retired, senile bank clerk confined to his basement apartment, Tomas Jonsson decides that, since memoirs are all the rage, he's going to write his own - a sure bestseller - that will also right the wrongs of contemporary Icelandic society. Egoistic, cranky, and digressive, Tomas blasts away while relating pick-up techniques, meditations on chamber pot use, ways to assign monetary value to noise pollution, and much more. His rants parody and subvert the idea of the memoir - something that's as relevant today in our memoir-obsessed society as it was when the novel was first published.

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am
Author: Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564787036

Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads out into the world—to make her mark. She buries a time capsule out in the yard. (It gets dug up to make room for a flagpole.) She wears her late husband's watch and hopes people will ask her for the time. (They never do.) Is it really possible for a woman to disappear so completely that the world won't notice her passing? The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am is a macabre twist on the notion that life "must be lived to the fullest."

Trafika Europe

Trafika Europe
Author: Andrew Singer
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016
Genre: European fiction
ISBN: 9780271074658

In volume 1 of Trafika Europe, Andrew Singer gathers choice offerings from the first year of the quarterly journal of the same name. These fourteen selections-from seven women and seven men, seven poets and seven fiction writers-represent languages across the Continent, from Shetland Scots and Occitan, Latvian and Polish, Armenian, Italian, Hungarian, German, and Slovenian to Faroese and Icelandic. With some of the most accomplished writing in new translation from Europe today, this volume opens a window onto some emerging contours of European identity. Former ASCAP director of photography Mark Chester complements the writing with sumptuous black-and-white photos. The contributors are Vincenzo Bagnoli, Ewa Chrusciel, Christine DeLuca, Mandy Haggith, Stefanie Kremser, Aurélia Lassaque, Wiesław Myśliwski, Jóanes Nielsen, Edvīns Raups, László Sárközi, Marko Sosič, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Nara Vardanyan, and Māra Zālīte.

Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
Author: Barry B. Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1996-10-28
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521589079

A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.

Stillicide

Stillicide
Author: Cynan Jones
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1646220145

A powerful climate crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which water is commodified and vulnerable to sabotage that is "close to perfect," "imaginative and far reaching," and "very human and deadly serious" (The Guardian). Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful of the future, who weighs in his hands the possibility of death against the possibility of life. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, Stillicide is a moving story of love and loss and the will to survive, and a powerful glimpse of the tangible future.

The Shadows of Men

The Shadows of Men
Author: Abir Mukherjee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164313745X

Award-winning crime novelist Abir Mukherjee is back with another brilliant mystery featuring police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surrender-Not Banerjee, set in 1920s Calcutta. Calcutta, 1923 When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force—Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee—track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this remarkable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?

Have a Nice Day

Have a Nice Day
Author: Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

From Croatia's finest living writer comes a lament for her anguished homeland and a critique of American culture. In the form of a fictional "dictionary", Ugresic writes about our culture through the eyes of one whose country is being destroyed, forcing us to look at Balkan barbarism through our veil of Western obsessions.

North Station

North Station
Author: Su-a Pae
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781940953656

First English-language story collection from one of Korea's most exciting young writers.