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Title: Τα Τραγούδια του Καμάλ
Original title in Danish: Kamals Sange
Authour: I. B. Fandèr
Genre: Autobiography & Memoirs / Αυτοβιογραφία & Απομνημονεύματα
Illustrator: Natalie Key Öberg
Translated by: Chrysopigi Lazarakou
Publisher: Erik Istrup Publishing
Μεταπωλητές/βιβλιοθήκες: IngramContent.com
Print & distribution: Ingram Spark
Binding: E-book, hardcover, 37 illustrations
Language: Greek
Other Languages: English | Italian | French | Danish | Spanish | German | Finnish
Published: 24. May 2016
Pages: 80
Measurements: 223 x 146 x 9.3 mm & 246 g

Hardback ISBN13: 978-87-92980-32-8

  List price: DKK 224 | £ 26.70 | € 29.99 | US$ 34 | CA$ 39.99 | AU$ 41.80

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  ePub ISBN13: 978-87-92980-33-5
  Smashwords edition ISBN13: 978-87-92980-34-2 for epub, mobi, pdf & lrf

  List price: DKK 112 | £ 12.99 | € 14.99 | US$ 16.99 | CA$ 19.99 | AU$ 19.99

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Για το βιβλίο

΄Οπως και ο Neale Donald Walsch στο βιβλίο του «Συνοµιλίες µε το Θεό», ο Καµάλ µας δίνει, µε το ποιητικό του ύφος, µία σπάνια ευκαιρία να ρίξουµε µιά κλεφτή µατιά στην εµπειρία ενός αναζητητή δια µέσου αυτών των προσωπικών σελίδων ηµερολογίου που αφορούν την συνοµιλία του µε Το Ενα. Γινόµαστε µάρτυρες αυτης της βαθιάς του αγάπης και συµπόνοιας για την ανθρωπότητα, και της ειλικρίνιας και αφοσίωσής του στο θείον.
 Ο Καµάλ καταφέρνει να δει την ιερότητα ακόµη και στο πιό µικροσκοπικό πράγµα. Αυτό μας υπενθυµίζει, ότι το κάθε τί είναι ιερό και έχει έναν σκοπό στη ζωή. Μας δείχνει ότι οπουδήποτε κι αν είµαστε, είµαστε στον σωστό τόπο στον σωστό χρόνο, ευλογηµένοι από τό Σύµπαν για το οτιδήποτε πράττουµε και για όποιοσδήποτε νοµίζουµε ότι είµαστε.
- Erik Istrup

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Η ιστορία του βιβλίου

Ι. Β. Fandèr είναι το ψευδόνυµο του Jørgen-Palle Nielsen. Ο Nielsen χρηµατοδότησε ο ίδιος, χωρίς εκδότη, την εκτύπωση του ‘Kamals Sange’ στη Δανία το 1948. Όταν µερικοί από τους φίλους του Nielsen, η Anni και ο Ib Lunau, έμαθαν για τον θάνατό του στην Ελβετία, αποφάσισαν να ανατυπώσουν το βιβλίο, το 1972, το οποίο χρηµατοδότησαν οι ίδιοι. Το 1981 ο εκδότης, Strubes Forlag ήρθε σε επαφή µε τους Lunau, γιανα πάρει τα πνευµατικά δικαιώµατα τα οποία και πήρε και το ίδιο έτος δηµοσίευσε το βιβλίο.
 Το 2009, ένας αγαπητός µου φίλος, µου παρουσίασε στην έκδοση του 1981 το Kamals Sange, και αµέσως µετά, αποφάσισα να την δηµοσιεύσω, εφόσον θα µπορούσα να πάρω την άδεια για αυτό. Ήξερα ότι ο οίκος Strubes Forlag είχε κλείσει, και εποµένως δεν διαθέτω οποιαδήποτε πνευµατικά δικαιώµατα. Κατόπιν ήµουν τυχερός και βρήκα την Anni, 80 χρονών τώρα, και µετά από την συνάντησή µας, αποφάσισα να το δηµοσιεύσω σαν εκτύπωση-κατα απαίτηση.
 Παρόλο που τα τραγούδια ήταν διαθέσιµα πάλι, αισθάνθηκα ότι κάτι έλειπε. Τα τραγούδια, τα λόγια, έχαναν στην µουσική. «Η µουσική» µπορεί να τεθεί σε ένα βιβλίο µε τη βοήθεια των εικόνων, έτσι ρώτησα την φίλη µου Natalie Key Öberg, εάν θα µπορούσε να δημιουργήσει µερικές ζωγραφιές ή σχέδια, τα οποία θα αντηχούσαν µε τα λόγια … και ναι τα βρήκε! Μετά από τη σκληρή δουλειά,παρήγαγε 37 έργα ζωγραφικής µέσω της ηλεκτρονικής γραφιστικής, που συνόδευσαν τα λόγια µε µια χρωµατική συµφωνία! Τα τραγούδια του Kamal και τα έργα ζωγραφικής της Natalie τώρα από κοινού θα προσκαλέσουν τα συναισθήµατά σας να χορέψουν µε χαρά.
- Erik Istrup

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Reviews

The pictures are so poetic
I received the book for Christmas 🙂 The pictures are the first reason why I bought it, they are so poetic ! They are perfect illustrations for the beautiful songs of Kamal. I like to dive in the picture that attracts me and then read the words.
 Cyntia Coste, France, 2019-Jan-01 via Facebook, Erik Istrup Publishing.

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The Songs of Kamal is a beautiful spiritual uplifting book. It is simple yet the message of unlimited love touches the heart. The relationship between Kamal and the Divine is so beautifully expressed. I loved every single page of it. The beautiful colourful illustrations in the book bring the book alive. Thanks to Erik Istrup for the wonderful English translation of this book, which bring this gem to more readers around the world. I definitely recommend this excellent book, which brings serenity to your mind, body and spirit.
 Caius Menezes, 2014-Sep-24 via email to Erik Istrup Publishing.

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The book is a collection of songs that portray life's ups and downs. Each of the songs illustrates, that you are never alone and that a higher power is watching over you. The higher power is co-creative to protect and even show you the way in life.
 Natalie Keys Öberg  is, with her unique illustrations, supporting the text in a beautiful way.
 When one reads The Songs of Kamal, one gets in touch with Kamal, and becomes gradually in-volved in his universe. The book is clearly worthy of recommending.
 Emma Bertelsen, 2014-Sep-16 via email to Erik Istrup Publishing.

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Fander's work takes the journal entries of a mystic in the (relatively) modern world, his glimpses, experiences and insights, and does no more than present them to us. We see our world from this new perspective, (or absence of it), backed by this new attitude, (or absence of it), in the everyday, the commonplace, the frustrations, the friendships, the beauty and yes, even the unpleasantness of it as we hear our diarist respond. That is all there is here, because that is all there needs to be. There is no philosopher's stone, this is it. Look around you. No... not like that, cut it out. Try again... and... yes. You're getting it. Nothing spectacular, I know, and yes, you've always known it... but have you ever lived it? That's what our diarist does, and he's worth a visit from time to time, the odd reading here and there, just to remind ourselves. This is not a book to read start-to-finish, this is a book to dip into when the need is there to be grounded yet again in the knowledge that our frustrations are not the be-all and end-all of the world in which we live and that they are, indeed, nothing at all.
 This English language translation by Erik Istrup is beautifully illustrated in dozens of paintings by Natalie Key Öberg. The simplicity and innocence of her work with blocks of flowing colour depicting nature and the world with people and animals, small yet significant, placed within the whole evoke the mood of the work, and looking at them is a relaxation in itself, there to be appreciated and accepted rather than analysed and assessed. If some of the words puzzle you, just forget them and look at the pictures. Their meaning will come in due course.
 In considering the work, I am not entirely without reservations. The focus of our diarist is largely placed upon Another - call it a spirit, call it God, call it what you will - something I do not myself find helpful. Posit a Creator and it leads to the question 'Why?' as when our diarist says he blames this Other for all wars and evil in the world, or when he questions him about natural events that have had damaging consequences. I personally find that all a little distracting and would have preferred our writer to have been agnostic rather than to be in a personal relationship with a personified Truth. There's also an occasional tendency towards smugness - 'I know, they don't' - suggesting our diarist has a way to go in that department, but let's give the guy a break on that. He's got it more than I ever have and, given my own impatience and a tendency towards distractions I'm loathe to sacrifice, more than I ever will. This will be a good book for me to pick up from time to time when that impatience, those distractions become too pressing.
 If you're an ordinary person as I am, as most of us are, with a sense that things could be better, should be better, and there's something out there that can help you to see the world as it ought to be and to sort yourself out within it, then this work is a good place to start looking.
  4/5 Pete Marchetto, 2014-Sep-06 on GoodReads.
See the thoroughly review here: petemarchetto.com/review-i-b-fander-the-songs-of-kamal/

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I got this book in Danish by Erik Istrup for about one and a half years ago, and have read it several times since. Every time something new pops up; It is as if the songs have multiple layers that gradually turn out for one.
 The songs are in its expression both from the serious to the quirky; the latter as it pulls on the smile of, e.g., "You always come up with something! I have been searching high and low for you, and you were just sitting here playing with the flowers of the elder tree, fully occupied with blowing small black insects on them." Through the serious and the quirky, you will understand the growth that is going on and how important it is to know that you are never alone.
 Formally, the book is simple and clear, written with sufficiently large font size. It is nice that each song is complete with * (asterisk). I was a little confused when I opened the book for the first time, of who had written the book and published it the first and second time.

Natalie Key Öberg has with some lovely illustrations, captured and complemented the simplicity and sometimes naïve and innocent form, the songs are written in and the openness towards all the songs it contains.
 There are in the illustrations not so much confusing; that is what you see. I admire the fluid, gentle and dreamy transitions between colours.
 I'm experiencing the shapes in the illustrations as children; and it is of course naïve to put a child, a cat, a tree and a moon together in one image, when the songs are also a matter of higher wisdom. However, there may be so much meaning and symbolism in this kind of election. For whom other than children and unaffected animals, it has an open mind toward life, as we, adults have forgotten?
 Linda Kocsis, 2014-Aug-31 to Erik Istrup Publishing & bog.nu.

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 The language is poetic; perhaps not the words one uses in daily life, but yet easy to read! The illustrations are what I would call romantic and yet pretty simple! The book is readable, but still not, because there are a lot "between the lines." The sentences can at times seem long, but it is a book that certainly is worth reading!
 Kirsten Thomsen, 2014-Aug-29 to EIP.

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 I loved it, it's beautiful, touching, deep, sweet and wise in a quiet way. It touched me deeply and I loved the feeling and the colours of the paintings.
 Teija Syrjäkorpi, 2014-Aug-27 via Facebook chat.

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   Inside The Songs of Kamal, you will find the most wonderful pictures created by Natalie Key. Once you have admired these fine pictures you will never forget them. They speak to the heart. I can warmly recommend the fine little book, with the most beautiful pictures that touches, both the soul and the heart.
 Lise Meldgaard, 2014-Aug-26 to EIP.

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 Awesome illustrations!
  5/5 Aleksandr Dubinskiy, 2014-Jul-12 on Amazon.

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 I bought this book as a present but ending up reading it myself. It is very Inspiring to read and the Illustrations are amazing!
 I can highly recommend it!
  5/5 Magnus Anteroinen, 2014-Jun-15 on Amazon.

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