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  1. Alice Munro
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    “Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Critics have been saying for so long that a typical Alice Munro story is as rich and textured as any novel that they seem not to have noticed that her recent stories don’t resemble novels much at all. Beginning (roughly) with Runaway (2004) and continuing through to Too Much Happiness (2009), Munro has gradually shifted away from the complex, oblique narratives and intricately layered portraiture of her mid-career work toward a pared-down, almost expressionist form of storytelling. There is an interesting diversion at the end of this book: the final four stories are, in Munro's own words, "not quite stories… the first and last – and the closest – things I have to say about my own life." A less well-known writer would not be allowed to lift her hands and say, "Look, there are some bits here, and I'm not sure what they are, but there you go," but they are delightful additions to this collection. Plainer, with a slightly more bitter edge, than the "fictional" stories that precede them, they are a tantalising glimpse of the memoir Munro fans would swoon for, should she choose to write it.”

  2. Julie C. Dunbar
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Women, Music, Culture is an undergraduate textbook on the history and contribution of women in a variety of musical genres and professions. Clear writing, compelling narrative, and more than fifty guided listening examples bring the world of women in music to life. It includes a wide array of pedagogical aids, including an abundance of photographs, a comprehensive companion website, critical thinking exercises, as well as a running glossary that reinforces key figures and terms. Covering important figures in art music and popular music, it examines a community of women involved in the world of music, including composers, producers, consumers, performers, technicians, mothers, educators and listeners."

  3. Rachel Cusk
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    “I loved reading it, and found it fascinating, but I also found it dangerous. An incitement to riot...It’s an extraordinary piece of work and the writing is utterly beautiful...I laughed out loud, often, in painful recognition.”—Esther Freud “She captures the absolute shock of suddenly finding yourself responsible for another person—with no training, no guidance, and, indeed, no one coming from their planet to take them back. A brilliant book—and so funny too.”—Kate Atkinson Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of seven novels: She won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists.

  4. Pierre Lemaitre
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    "Rescapés du chaos de la Grande Guerre, Albert et Edouard comprennent que le pays ne veut plus d'eux. La France glorifie ses morts et oublie les survivants. Condamnés à l'exclusion, et refusant de céder à l'amertume, ils imaginent ensemble une arnaque gigantesque qui va mettre le pays tout entier en effervescence."

  5. Marion Poschmann
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    "Die Schriftstellerin Marion Poschmann erhielt den mit 30.000 Euro dotierten Preis für ihren Roman “Die Sonnenposition”. Aus der Begründung der Jury: „Marion Poschmann ist eine Meisterin der Camouflage und der Mimikry, der Spiegelung und Täuschung, der Dialektik des Sich-Zeigens und des Verbergens.“ Der Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis wird jährlich von der Stadt Braunschweig und dem Deutschlandfunk vergeben und zählt zu den renommiertesten Literaturauszeichnungen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Preisträger der vergangenen Jahre waren Christian Kracht für „Imperium“ (2012), Sibylle Lewitscharoff für „Blumenberg“ (2011) und Andreas Maier für „Das Zimmer“ (2010).."

  6. Martin Geck
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Wagner und seine Musik werden gefürchtet, verachtet oder vergöttert. Martin Geck hat eine grundlegend neue und fesselnde Biographie eines der bedeutendsten und zugleich umstrittensten Komponisten der letzten Jahrhunderte geschrieben. Bei Richard Wagner geht es immer ums Ganze. Nicht nur um das Leben, auch um die Idee eines Gesamtkunstwerks, um den Komponisten als Kunstpropheten. An Wagner und seinem Werk scheiden sich die Geister. Und zugleich beeindruckt seine Musik durch die wundersame Fähigkeit, uns mit dem Augenblick zu versöhnen. Martin Geck will mit diesem Buch nicht nur Wagner und seiner Musik auf die Spur kommen, sondern auch uns selbst und unserer Zeit. Indem er wichtige musikwissenschaftliche, philosophische und lebensgeschichtliche Fragen an Wagners Leben und Werk richtet, schlägt er eine Brücke zwischen einstigen und heutigen Diskussionen: Was waren die Leitmotive in Wagners Lebens? Was fasziniert uns bis heute an Tristan und Isolde oder am Ring des Nibelungen? Beschädigt Wagners Antisemitismus sein Werk? Welche Werte und Unwerte nehmen wir durch seine Opern und musikalischen Dramen in uns auf? Wer Richard Wagner und seine Musik verstehen will, muss dieses Buch zur Hand nehmen."

  8. Daniel Zimmer
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "In neuerer Zeit versuchen Politiker zunehmend, mit Mitteln des Rechts „Gerechtigkeit“ zu erzeugen. Sie machen eine "soziale Schieflage" aus und fordern mehr Umverteilung. Dieses Buch nimmt die Gegenposition ein. Nicht (noch) mehr Politik ist angezeigt, sondern weniger Politik. Das Gemeinwesen steht im Dienst der Menschen – nicht umgekehrt. Nicht vermeintlich weltverbessernde Politiker sollen Entscheidungen für die Bürger treffen, sondern diese selbst. Der Autor konzipiert die Rechtsordnung als eine Infrastruktur zur Ausübung von Freiheiten. Richtschnur der Gesetzgebung sollte demnach sein, Menschen die Verwirklichung eigenverantwortlich gefasster Entschlüsse zu ermöglichen."

  9. ed. by Judith Keller
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    “This title offers an overview of two very different strains of modern Japanese photography. In the 1930s, Japanese photography evolved in two very directions: one toward a documentary style, the other favouring an experimental, or avant-garde, approach strongly influence by Western Surrealism. This book explores these two divergent paths through the work of two remarkable figures: Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. Hiroshi Hamaya (1915-1999) was born and raised in Tokyo and, after an initial period of creative experimentation, turned his attention to recording traditional life and culture. He went on to record cultural changes in China, political protests in Japan, and landscapes around the world. Kansuke Yamamoto (1914-1987) became fascinated by the innovative approaches in art and literature exemplified by Western artists such as Man Ray and Magritte. He promoted Surrealist and avant-garde ideas in Japan through his poetry, paintings, sculptures, and photography."

  10. Apoli Bertrand Kameni
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Analyse de la course internationale aux minerais stratégiques qui se tient en Afrique, continent riche de gisements de coltan, de tantale, de niobium, de platine, de béryllium et autres minéraux nécessaires aux industries de pointe. Le spécialiste en sciences politiques décrit les fondements, les méthodes et les effets de cette concurrence qui aboutit dans certains cas à des conflits armés."

  11. Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side of all these problems is that they're all about scarcity. We've all struggled with packing a suitcase with too many items and not enough time to do it. In Scarcity, two intellectual adventurers show us that this simple idea explains the most fundamental problems in all walks of life. Using the new science of scarcity, they explain why obesity is rampant; why people find it difficult to sleep when most sleep deprived; and why the lonely find it so hard to make friends. Scarcity will change the way you think about both the little everyday tasks and the big issues of global urgency."

  12. Isabelle Wéry
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Un road-movie au cours duquel Marilyn Turkey part en quête de son identité - y compris sexuelle. Ce voyage se déroule en trois étapes qui représentent trois périodes de sa vie : enfance, milieu de la vingtaine, début de la quarantaine."

  13. Lesley Blanch
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    «This charming little book was first published in 1956 when people in England were still enduring postwar restrictions on both traveling and eating. As Lesley Blanch says in her introduction to a later edition 'benign fate whisked me elsewhere to follow less restricted ways, traveling widely and eating wildly.' She said: 'I don't belong in England, I don't belong anywhere, it is rather restful...I have met everybody and known nobody.' Lesley Blanch's gastronomic world tour includes eighty recipes each prefaced by an account of where they were first tasted, or with some amusing anecdoteLesley Blanch was born in June 1904 and died in 2007, aged 102. She studied painting at the Slade, and later designed book jackets for TS Eliot at Faber. Elegant and devastatingly pretty, she had many admirers and was married to the French novelist Romain Gary for fifteen years. She travelled extensively, principally in the Middle East, and during her long and extraordinary life wrote 12 books, the best-known of which is The Wilder Shores of Love, which has never been out of print since it was first published in 1954.»

  14. Paul Harding
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    «Harding follows a year in the life of Charlie Crosby as he tries to come to terms with a shattering personal tragedy. In the opening pages, Charlie picks up a voicemail from his wife informing him that their 13-year-old daughter, Kate, has been killed in a road accident. The novel traces 12 months of the aftermath. Charlie finds himself unable to arrange the funeral, and afterwards he punches a wall so hard that his wife has to take him to hospital. Along the way, his encounters are brought to life by his wit, his insights into history, and his yearning to understand the big questions. A stunning mosaic of human experience, Enon affirms Paul Harding as one of the most gifted and profound writers of his generation.»

  15. Ioana Pârvulescu
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Viaţa începe vineri is a unique and charming journey into bygone times. A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he ended up there. The stories of the various characters unfold, each closely interwoven with the next, outlining the features of what ultimately turns out to be the most important character of all: the city of Bucharest itself. We might, in fact, say that it is we who inhabit their future. And so too does Dan Creţu, alias Dan Kretzu, the present-day journalist hurled back in time by some mysterious process for just long enough to allow us a wonderful glimpse into a remote, almost forgotten world, but one still very much alive in our hearts."

  16. Philip Hensher.
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    «In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits in two, in what will become one of the most ferocious twentieth-century civil wars. Saadi tells the story of his childhood and of the ingenious ways his family survived the violence and conflicts: from his aunts stuffing him endlessly with sweets to stop marauding soldiers from hearing him cry, to street games based on American television shows; from the basement compartment his grandfather built to hide his treasured books, pictures, and music until after the war, to the daily gossip about each and every one of the relatives, servants, and neighbors. Scenes from Early Life is a beautifully detailed novel of profound empathy—an attempt to capture the collective memory of a family and a country.»

  17. Serge Bourjea
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Plusieurs essais portant notamment sur le paradoxe essentiel qui sous-tend la très riche création littéraire suisse, la poésie belge contemporaine et une étude de l'oeuvre singulière du plus voyageur des écrivains suisses, Nicolas Bouvier. Dans l'esprit des auteurs, la "francophonie du proche" prend ses distances avec une certaine idéologie du "français langue universelle"."

  18. hrsg. von Josef Kloppenburg
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Die Geschichte der Filmmusik reicht von den Vorläufern und Vorbildern in der Kunst- und Popularmusik über die Anfänge der Stummfilmzeit bis zur erstaunlichen Vielfalt ihrer heutigen Formen in Hollywood und anderswo. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die enorme Bandbreite der Musik in Film und Fernsehen – vom Mainstream-Kino über den Videoclip bis zur Visualisierung von Kunstmusik. Die Bedeutung und die Funktionalität der Filmmusik wird anhand prägnanter Beispiele wie Iwan der Schreckliche, Der Herr der sieben Meere oder auch Marienhof und Fluch der Karibik anschaulich dargestellt. Eine reichhaltige Bebilderung sowie zahlreiche Dokumente und Notenbeispiele sorgen für eine vorzügliche Visualisierung. Dieses Buch ist eine unabdingbare Grundlagenlektüre für jeden Musikinteressierten, der die Filmmusik in allen ihren Facetten kennen lernen will. Es wendet sich an professionelle Musik- und Filmschaffende sowie an musik- und filminteressierte Laien und Liebhaber, die ein grundlegendes Wissen über Filmmusik mit ihren differenzierten Kompositionen und beeindruckenden Klanggestaltungen erwerben wollen."

  19. Brigitte Urbani
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    "Les caractéristiques essentielles du théâtre de Dario Fo et de son épouse Franca Rame sont présentées, à travers un panorama de leur carrière, un aperçu du contenu de leurs comédies ainsi que des techniques par lesquelles ils délivrent leur message."

  20. Rachel Kushner
    • Sélection non luxembourgeoise

    «The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandro’s family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge.»

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