Showing results for "The Symphonies" in Genre Fiction

En deux mouvements — La Chamansa et Tjim Alexis Ravel — cette œuvre tisse la partition d’un pays qui se cherche. Des voix se répondent et se transforment, questionnant l’origine et l’avenir, l’ancrage et l’élan. Au fil des chapitres, les motifs s’entrelacent et s’amplifient, jusqu’à composer une symphonie d’âmes et de territoires où chaque note ouvre un horizon neuf. Une invitation à l’écoute d’un monde en gestation, porté par un souffle lyrique et une émotion diffuse qui résonnent bien après le dernier accord.

Quand Mathias, 11 ans, violoniste prometteur, demande à sa mère de participer à la " Tournée des étoiles ", un concours de jeunes talents, elle choisit de tout faire pour qu'il réalise son rêve, malgré la sclérose en plaques précoce dont il est atteint. Gustave, son grand-père, un compositeur distrait et loufoque, décide d'acheter un van afin de transformer cette tournée d'auditions en véritable aventure. Tandis que Mathias nourrit le secret espoir, grâce à la musique, de renouer avec son père dont il reste sans nouvelles... 

Thirty years ago, my father became the other half of a broken love story. A relationship he’s kept hidden for decades. Upon unearthing his secret through a series of emails in our paper’s archives, I began my search for the truth. Haunted by my father’s love story, and in my quest for answers, I never imagined I would discover a love of my own. Or that my love for Easton Crowne would be key in discovering the reason behind what split our parents up.

Audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow. Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, international bestselling author Marc Levy’s new novel is a page-turning thriller full of courage, resilience, and love. A mother’s love knows no borders, and her fight knows no limits. Veronika, a nurse...

Catherine Lacey ( Nobody Is Ever Missing), Akhil Sharma ( Family Life), Francoise Mouly (art editor at The New Yorker), and Kate Zambreno ( Heroines, Green Girl) discuss the acclaimed novel in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Marguerite Duras' ( Hiroshima Mon Amour) haunting, luminous book tells of the tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover in prewar Indochina. With a reading by Kathleen Chalfant ( The Affair, Angels in America on Broadway).

Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man.

À la fin du XIXème siècle, dans le Jura Suisse, un pasteur marié recueille une orpheline dont la seule famille vient de mourir. Dès que celle-ci passe le seuil de sa maison, il s'attire la déception et la tristesse de sa femme. Puis plus tard celle de son fils Jacques, quand il s'avère que celui-ci aussi tombe amoureux de la jeune fille.

Geliebt und verachtet ist seine Musik, für seine Person fühlt er kaum Liebe, der Tod scheint ihm ein erstrebenswertes Ziel. Peter Tschaikowski, den die einen den größten russischen Komponisten seiner Zeit nennen, die anderen verwestlicht und dekadent. Wie stark hat Klaus Mann auch sich selbst in diesem an der Welt leidenden Menschen porträtiert?

In Symphonie Pathétique entwirft Klaus Mann das Lebensbild des großen russischen Komponisten Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky. Die versunkenen Szenerien von St. Petersburg und Moskau im späten 19. Jahrhundert, das kaiserliche Berlin und die Gewandhaus-Stadt Leipzig werden darin lebendig. Doch der Glanz der bürgerlichen Welt ist trügerisch: Wegen seiner Homosexualität war Tschaikowsky zeitlebens zum Außenseiter verdammt. Die Seelenqualen und die Einsamkeit, unter denen der Komponist litt, zeichnet Klaus Mann einfühlsam nach, konnte doch kaum einer diese so gut nachempfinden wie der Autor selbst.

Un pasteur appelé au chevet d'une mourante dans l'arrière pays du Jura suisse, découvre une jeune fille farouche dans un coin de la masure. Il décide de recueillir cette enfant aveugle et sans langage, désormais sans famille et de l'éduquer au sain de sa famille. Un court roman ou les principes religieux vont se heurter aux sentiments humains. 

Zwei Frauen aus unterschiedlichen Zeiten, die ihren Träumen folgen, auf der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit und wahrer Liebe. "Für die schönste und wertvollste Rose. Deine Liebe lässt mich alles Dunkel vergessen." Mit all ihrer Leidenschaft ist Hannah dabei, ihren großen Traum zu verwirklichen: Ihr Café "Zur Schokoladen-Symphonie" in der Nähe des Bayreuther Festspielhauses. Beim Stöbern auf dem Dachboden stößt sie auf ein mit Rosen und zwei verschlungenen Initialen verziertes Holzkästchen, ein Tagebuch aus den 1920er-Jahren und eine Mappe mit Klaviernoten.

A startingly original, genre-bending literary debut in which a lovesick college student is abducted by his future selves. After Henry's girlfriend Val leaves him and transfers to another school, his grief begins to manifest itself in bizarre and horrifying ways. Cause and effect, once so...

C'est en 1919 que paraît "La Symphonie pastorale". André Gide, en ce début du XXème siècle, est l'une des figures les plus importantes de la littérature. Malgré une enfance protestante et rigide, ainsi qu'une vie personnelle difficile, il est de ces écrivains révolutionnaires et géniaux qui bouleversent une époque par la force de leur seul Verbe.

The acclaimed best-selling author returns to Symphony Space to discuss her latest novel. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth tells the enthralling and tender story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. In conversation with Emma Straub ( Modern Lovers). An excerpt from the novel will be performed by Alan Alda.

From dark and humble beginnings, a master musician rises to take the world by storm. Nick Raze, a violin virtuoso, exists at the height of popularity, while his life remains a well-protected mystery. A year of artist-in-residency in Chicago introduces him to a man who offers him his first friendship and a woman who offers him his first taste of love. Now Nick must make a choice to fight against the bonds of his past in order to escape the isolation of his heart.

A large wooden desk with many drawers is at the mysterious center of Krauss' deeply engrossing new novel of interwoven lives. The author of the best-selling The History of Love discusses her 2010 National Book Award nominated book, with Deborah Treisman (fiction editor at The New Yorker). An excerpt will be performed by Lois Smith. Performance playlist: Reading by Lois Smith, conversation between Nicole Krauss and Deborah Treisman, and a discussion with the audience.

The Irish writers and good friends discuss their newest novels (each of which is set in New York City and was chosen by Amazon as one of the Top 4 Books of 2009) with each other and the audience. Michael Cerveris performs excerpts from both authors. A book signing follows.

The novelist talks with author and journalist Daniel Menaker about this deeply satisfying first novel—a multigenerational family story, great adventure, and murder mystery set in the farmlands of northern Wisconsin. This mesmerizing book centers on the coming of age of a mute teenage boy who has a rare ability to communicate with dogs.

Join best-selling author Nicole Krauss to discuss her upcoming new novel, Forest Dark, an intellectual, humorous, provocative book exploring life and God through the eyes of two Americans lost in Tel Aviv. Krauss will be interviewed by National Humanities Medalist, novelist, and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein ( Plato at the Googleplex). With a performance from the novel by Emily Skeggs ( Fun Home).

A Gentleman in Moscow recounts the story of Count Alexander Rostov. In 1922, on the heels of the Russian Revolution, the count is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to permanent house arrest in Moscow's grand Hotel Metropol. In something of a literary feat, as the count's story progresses over three decades, the walls of the Metropol seem to expand, rather than close in around readers.