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ISBN: 9780307272058

Content: " A dazzling story collection from the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists, one of the world's great contemporary writers (Barack Obama). In these twelve riveting stories, the award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them."

Content: Rezension(1): " CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE's work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and Granta. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus , Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize, Americanah, which won the NBCC Award and was a New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year,the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck, and the essay We Should All Be Feminists. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria." Rezension(2): "Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review : Imagine how hard it must be to write stories that make American readers understand what it might be like to visit a brother in a Nigerian jail, to be the new bride in an arranged marriage, to arrive in Flatbush from Lagos to meet a husband or to hide in a basement, waiting for a riot to subside, wondering what happened to a little sister who let go of your hand when you were running. How would it feel to be a woman who smuggled her journalist husband out of Nigeria one day and had her 4-year-old son shot by government thugs the next? If reading stories can make you feel . caught between two worlds and frightened, what would it be like to live them? This is Adichie's third book, and it is fascinating. . Characters (many in their teens and early 20s) feel a yanking on invisible collars as they try to strike out on their own. Sometimes, ties are cut by distance, leaving a protagonist disoriented and alone . Sometimes a lie or a death cuts the lines of trust that tie a character to the world they inhabit. Most of Adichie's characters are alone, adrift in a strange physical or emotional landscape. . These characters feel invisible, erased. They can't go home. They want to melt into America. What would it be like to feel that sinister thing, memory, around your neck? Perhaps you can imagine after all." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 6, 2009 Adichie ( Half of a Yellow Sun ) stays on familiar turf in her deflated first story collection. The tension between Nigerians and Nigerian-Americans, and the question of what it means to be middle-class in each country, feeds most of these dozen stories. Best known are “,ell One,”,and “,he Headstrong Historian,”,which have both appeared in the New Yorker and are the collection’, finest works. “,ell One,”,in particular, about the appropriation of American ghetto culture by Nigerian university students, is both emotionally and intellectually fulfilling. Most of the other stories in this collection, while brimming with pathos and rich in character, are limited. The expansive canvas of the novel suits Adichie’, work best,here, she fixates mostly on romantic relationships. Each story’, observations illuminate once,read in succession, they take on a repetitive slice-of-life quality, where assimilation and gender roles become ready stand-ins for what could be more probing work." Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2009 A dozen stories about the lives of Nigerians at home and in America from the winner of the Orange Broadband Prize.〈br clear=none/〉〈br clear=none/〉In the five tales set in the United States, Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun, 2006, etc.) profiles characters both drawn to America and cautious of assimilation.",mitation",centers on Nkem, who lives with her two Americanized children in a large house in the Philadelphia suburbs filled with reproductions of tribal masks (the originals are in British museums). Her husband visits from Nigeria for only a few months each year, and when she hears he has moved his girlfriend into their Lagos house, Nkem begins to consider the authenticity of her American life, wondering if it&apos, too late to go home. In",he Arrangers of Marriage,",a young woman arrives in New York with her brand-new husband, who seemed fine on paper but proves not to be quite what he claimed. Ofodile is not yet a doctor, just an intern,their",ouse",is a sparsely furnished apartment in Flatbush,and Dave, as he prefers to be called, has fairly stringent ideas of what it takes to be American, like no sugar in tea and no spicy smells polluting their hallway. The very fine",umping Monkey Hill",and the title story both show Nigerian women confronting white expectations. In the first, Ujunwa has won a stay at a writer&apos, retreat outside Cape Town. The organizer, a British Africanist, has his own ideas as to what constitutes authentic African writing—,esbians are out, revolution is in—,nd does not like her tale of feminist struggle in Lagos.",he Thing Around Your Neck",refers to loneliness, which nearly chokes a young immigrant woman working as a waitress in Connecticut, but even as she feels its grip loosening, she remains wary of her new American boyfriend,",ecause white people who like Africa too much and those who like Africa too little were the same—,ondescending.",br clear=none/〉〈br clear=none/〉Insightful and illuminating. (COPYRIGHT (2009) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.) " Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 15, 2009 This is a fine new collection of 12 short stories by the young Nigerian author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun. The stories are set both in the United States and in Nigeria, where things continue to fall apart. A privileged college student gets involved in gang violence,innocent women flee from a bloody riot,some characters are visited by ghosts, while others are haunted by the memory of war. Yet as one character puts it, an easier life in the United States is cushioned by so much convenience that it feels sterile. Relations between the races are awkward at best. The title story probes the emotional gulf between a young immigrant woman and her well-off white American boyfriend. The closing story, The Headstrong Historian, is a miniature portrait of the colonial legacy in Nigeria. Adichie, a brilliant writer whose characters stay with you for a long time, deserves to be more widely known. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/09.]Leslie Patterson, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence, RI Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "

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Uniform Title: Trios piano, violin, cello no. 2, op. 87 C major

Content: Brahms served by the best, the famous Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio Founded in the sixties thanks to the initiative of Pablo Casals, the Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio (piano, violin and cello) is composed of soloists who have each conducted brilliant careers. During a quarter of a century, they have put their talent at the service of one of the finest repertoires, that of the trio which includes nuggets such as Brahms's Second and Third Trios. All three Americans, Isaac Stern, Eugen Istomin and Leonard Rose, have left in the minds of those who have heard them perform unforgettable memories. Following the example of famous predecessors such as the Cortot-Thibaud-Casals or Rubinstein-Heifetz-Piatigorsky trios, they too have become legendary. Over the years, whenever they met again, even after a long absence, their complicity was such that they only needed a few measures for that small spark that united them to come alive. "We laughed a lot, recalls Istomin, we also bickered and even severely quarrelled two or three times, but the unity of our musical ideal never wavered." The First Trio Op. 8€(which features in the first film dedicated to our three musketeers) was written by a young Brahms aged twenty-one, whereas the€Second and Third Trios, € which we hear recorded here in 1974 by French television, were composed thirty years later. As soon as we hear Stern, Istomin and Rose in these absolute masterpieces, we are immediately struck by their ability to attain such a degree of intimate and natural communication. "One for all and all for one," the motto of the three musketeers applies to their playing, which solves the most complicated of all equations: how to be entirely oneself while blending into a single entity

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Uniform Title: Sonatas violin, piano (1897) F major

Content: In July 2007, medici.tv was inaugurating its partnership with the Verbier Festival. A series of extraordinary recordings would follow, featuring the best artists of our times. Renaud Capuçon and Elena Bashkirova give here an outstanding rendition of for Major sonatas from the violin and piano repertoire. Ravel opens this programme with the sonata which was published posthumously. Then, the very refined 5th Sonata by Beethoven, composed in 1801 and called "The Spring." Last but not least, the only Sonata for violin and piano Janáček completed (his first two ones stayed unfinished). It was written in 1922, by the time Ravel was probably writing his own masterpiece. The four movements of this sonata are made up of popular songs and mysterious atmospheres, which reminds us of Katja Kabanova's best themes

Note: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 in A minor, op. posth. / , Sonata for violin and piano no. 5 in F major, op. 24 "Spring" / , Sonata for violin and piano /

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ISBN: 9780307485779

Content: " A haunting story of love and war from one of the world's great contemporary writers (Barack Obama), the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal,Olanna, the professor's beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover's charm,and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna's willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war. "

Content: Rezension(1): " Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria, where she attended medical school for two years at the University of Nigeria before coming to the United States. A 2003 O. Henry Prize winner, Adichie was shortlisted for the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, and has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and the Iowa Review. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus , was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker. She now divides her time between the U.S. and Nigeria. From the Trade Paperback..." Rezension(2): " Elle : A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal during the Biafran war. -- Time Instantly enthralling. . Vivid. . Powerful . A story whose characters live in a changing wartime atmosphere, doing their best to keep that atmosphere at bay. -- The New York Times Ingenious. . [With] searching insight, compassion and an unexpected yet utterly appropriate touch of wit, Adichie has created an extraordinary book. -- Los Angeles Times Brilliant. . Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists. . That is what great fiction does--it simultaneously devours and ennobles, and in its freely acknowledged invention comes to be truer than the facts upon which it is built." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from June 26, 2006 When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling three-year civil war followed. That period in African history is captured with haunting intimacy in this artful page-turner from Nigerian novelist Adichie ( Purple Hibiscus ). Adichie tells her profoundly gripping story primarily through the eyes and lives of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy who survives conscription into the raggedy Biafran army, and twin sisters Olanna and Kainene, who are from a wealthy and well-connected family. Tumultuous politics power the plot, and several sections are harrowing, particularly passages depicting the savage butchering of Olanna and Kainene', relatives. But this dramatic, intelligent epic has its lush and sultry side as well: rebellious Olanna is the mistress of Odenigbo, a university professor brimming with anticolonial zeal,business-minded Kainene takes as her lover fair-haired, blue-eyed Richard, a British expatriate come to Nigeria to write a book about Igbo-Ukwu art—,nd whose relationship with Kainene nearly ruptures when he spends one drunken night with Olanna. This is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs, most notably its depiction of the impact of war', brutalities on peasants and intellectuals alike. It', a searing history lesson in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing."

Note: Auszeichnungen: The National Book Critics Circle:National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

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ISBN: 9780007279289

Content: "WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things."

Content: Rezension(1): "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction,and acclaimed story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, received numerous awards and was named one of New York Times Ten Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from June 26, 2006 When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling three-year civil war followed. That period in African history is captured with haunting intimacy in this artful page-turner from Nigerian novelist Adichie ( Purple Hibiscus ). Adichie tells her profoundly gripping story primarily through the eyes and lives of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy who survives conscription into the raggedy Biafran army, and twin sisters Olanna and Kainene, who are from a wealthy and well-connected family. Tumultuous politics power the plot, and several sections are harrowing, particularly passages depicting the savage butchering of Olanna and Kainene', relatives. But this dramatic, intelligent epic has its lush and sultry side as well: rebellious Olanna is the mistress of Odenigbo, a university professor brimming with anticolonial zeal,business-minded Kainene takes as her lover fair-haired, blue-eyed Richard, a British expatriate come to Nigeria to write a book about Igbo-Ukwu art—,nd whose relationship with Kainene nearly ruptures when he spends one drunken night with Olanna. This is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs, most notably its depiction of the impact of war', brutalities on peasants and intellectuals alike. It', a searing history lesson in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing."

Note: Auszeichnungen: The National Book Critics Circle:National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Language: English

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Uniform Title: Oberon piano no. 3, op. 28 Overture A minor

Content: Stuck behind the iron curtain, Mravinsky, Richter and Gilels were legends, and rightly so. "Russian passion locked up," Yehudi Menuhin sums it up perfectly in these words when talking about Evgeny Mravinsky. He never said 'Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen', according to a violinist in his orchestra. Upon his arrival a crushing silence would hang over everyone, to be interrupted after three or four minutes with 'four measures before measure 64' & that was all." "He was extremely strict," confirms Menuhin. An autocrat venerated and feared by his orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic which he conducted for fifty years from 1931 till his death in 1988 and from which, thanks to hard work, Mravinsky obtained extraordinary perfection. "Before a concert, he would make us rehearse several times Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony although we knew it by heart. But it was fascinating; we were at the heart of the creative process." However, Mravinsky didn't like recording, he even stopped frequenting studios from 1961. Yet he left at least five versions of the overture of the Oberon by Weber, a piece he felt in perfect harmony with. This version recorded in 1978 is the last. Another favorite work of his was Francesca da Rimini, the symphonic poem by Tchaikovsky: it was the piece he conducted when in 1938 in Moscow, he won the Competition for Best Conductor in the USSR in front of Kirill Kondrashin. In 1983, he renewed the feat once again by winning the audience over with his extraordinary mix of contained passion and haughty nobility. Titans! That is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of the pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels. Not only for their imposing physical presence (Richter frightened the orchestra conductor, Rozhdestvensky) but also because of the way they grasped the keyboard. Was it because they had the same professor at the Moscow Conservatory, the famous Heinrich Neuhaus? When we evoke Richter's repertoire, the name of Mendelssohn does not immediately spring to mind. Yet, in Moscow in 1966, he gave a powerful yet delicate interpretation of the Variations sérieuses. However, the name of Prokofiev immediately springs to mind when one thinks of Emil Gilels. They became friends in Odessa, where the pianist was born in 1916. The composer entrusted him with the premiere of the Eighth Sonata in 1944. But the Third Sonata, which he played in the studios of the BBC in 1959, was also part of his repertoire. Gilels will, however, only leave two recordings twenty years apart, as well as this version that is all the more precious that his television appearances were rare. In this compact work in a single movement, he unleashes all of his power, with an infallible sense of rhythm

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