Sigrid: 273 books
The Son Avenger
Volume IV of The Master of Hestviken
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, 'The Son Avenger' suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of 'Olav the Bad, ' Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or Lear.
The Snake Pit
The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Set in medieval Norway, the books follow Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother and sister, have become lovers in a world caught between the fading sphere of pagan worship and vendettas and the expansion of Christianity.
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The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
**“The tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent...
Granta 132
Possession
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited - repeatedly - by an incubus....
Granta 133
What Have We Done
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In this issue, acclaimed nature writer Barry Lopez meditates on language and seeing; Australian writer Rebecca Giggs witnesses the monumental death of a stranded whale; science writer Fred Pearce describes the Herculean effort to keep nuclear Sellafield safe; Kathleen Jamie travels to the Alaskan...
Granta 131
The Map Is Not the Territory
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories.
Ludmila Ulitskaya's...
Granta 126
do you remember
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
We are what we remember, and even when we invent, we write what we remember. Every line is a fragment of something else; that is the great collective project that we call culture. In this issue of Granta, writers remember, or invent, scenes from their own lives and the lives of others.
Ann...
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more...
Vampire Cocktail
Geschichten aus der Vampirwelt
Language: German
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Vielfältig und aufregend präsentiert sich die Welt der Cocktails, von Cosmopolitan bis Bloody Mary ist für jeden Geschmack etwas dabei. Um einige dieser Mix-Getränke ranken sich Legenden und Erzählungen, andere haben es sogar schon auf die große Leinwand geschafft. Ein Cocktail kann zu Begegnungen...
Never Too Old for Adventure Two Octogenarians Abroad
Correspondence from a Year of Home Exchanges with Couples in Austria, Germany, France and Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
This book is an excursion into the thoughts and experiences of two enterprising octogenarians: a German wife and her Texas husband. They return to Europe for one year of home exchanges with various partners in several cities and countries: Austria, France, Germany, and Poland. The correspondences...
Warrior
A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Jason Cowley: it wasn't a 'Brexit' murder
David Flusfeder: the last shopkeepers of London
Charles Glass: in Palmyra
Stephen Sharp: Mother's death
Sana Valiulina: remembers her father, a Gulag prisoner
Anthony Doerr: on Edward Burtynsky
New fiction from: Brian Allen Carr, Joshua Cohen, Ho Sok...
by Sigrid Rausing
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
We call ourselves the Fellowship, or sometimes the Church of God, but the world knew us as the Plymouth Brethren - Ken Follett
These Mennonite colonies are self-policed, except in cases of murder. The bishop and the elders came up with a solution to the problem of how to punish the offenders:...
Granta 144
Generic Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
An issue on gender and power
Devorah Baum reads Grace Paley to find out what women want
Stella Duffy looks for LGBT voices in the #MeToo debate
Fernanda Eberstadt remembers the 70s drag scene in New York
Debra Gwartney breaks her silence
Ottessa Moshfegh gets what she wants
TaraShea Nesbit...
by Elizabeth Arndt, Jake Dailey, George Dibley
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.
Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings,...