28 Results for : dacha
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A Terrible Country: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 692min
New York Times editors' choice.Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture."This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it." (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)"Hilarious, heartbreaking...A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year." (Ann Levin, Associated Press)"The funniest work of fiction I've read this year." (Christian Lorentzen, Vulture.com)A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty - the first novel in 10 years from a founding editor of n+1 and author of All the Sad Young Literary MenWhen Andrei Kaplan’s older brother, Dima, insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It’s the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn, packs up his hockey stuff, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can’t always remember who he is.Andrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow, still the city of his birth but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly - but surprisingly sharp! - grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a café to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a beau ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ari Fliakos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004005/bk_peng_004005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Burke’s Samovar: Bob Burke Suspense Thriller, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 767min
Bob Burke is back for book four! This time he’s tusslin’ with the Russian mob and the czar himself in the Kremlin!When the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach steals his company’s army software contract, blows up his office building in Chicago, and attacks Sherwood Forrest, enough is enough!After dustups with ISIS terrorists, the New York Genovese and Luchese mafia families in an Atlantic City casino, and a shootout with the Chicago DiGrigoria mob in a Forrest Preserve woods, all this former army sniper, ranger, and Delta Force commander wanted was to go back to his North Carolina farm, kick back, and enjoy life.But that can wait. Time to take break up their operation in Brooklyn, take their "lunch money", kick some butt, and make a house call on their boss in his dacha back in Moscow. With the help of the Merry Men, a Russian army colonel, Sasha the Mad Russian, sniper rifles, and, of course, plenty of plastic explosives, it is game on! Like Burke's War, Burke's Gamble, and Burke's Revenge, the action is nonstop! It’s time for some serious payback and a taste of revenge. Undersized, underestimated, and now a telecommunications company executive, he is often dismissed as simply the “phone guy”, but as his former Delta sergeants will attest, whether he’s carrying a .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifle, a tactical knife, or just his bare hands, he is one of the most lethal killing machines the US government ever produced. If you like a fast-paced action-adventure suspense novel, buy this Delta Force thriller. It’s another military best seller from the author of The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Aim True, My Brothers, Winner Lose All, and The Cold War Trilogy.Whether you're looking for a good beach book, something to get you through a long plane flight, or something to take the chill off a cold winter night, buy the audiobook and find ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew S. Newbold. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222693/bk_acx0_222693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Summer Guest: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 698min
What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel - and the manuscript still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery of a diary. During the long, hot summer of 1888, an extraordinary friendship blossoms between Anton Chekhov and Zinaida Lintvaryova, a young doctor. Recently blinded by illness, Zinaida has retreated to her family's estate in the lush countryside of Eastern Ukraine, where she is keeping a diary to record her memories of her earlier life. But when the Chekhov family arrives to spend the summer at a dacha on the estate and she meets the middle son, Anton Pavlovich, her quiet existence is transformed by the connection they share. What begins as a journal kept simply to pass the time becomes an intimate, introspective narrative of Zinaida's singular relationship with this doctor and writer of growing fame. More than a century later, in 2014, the unexpected discovery of this diary represents Katya Kendall's last chance to save her struggling London publishing house. Zinaida's description of a gifted young man still coming to terms with his talent offers profound insight into a literary legend, but it also raises a tantalizing question: Did Chekhov, known only as a short story writer and playwright, write a novel over the course of their friendship that has since disappeared? The answer could change history, and finding it proves an irresistible challenge for Ana Harding, the translator Katya hires. Increasingly drawn into Zinaida and Chekhov's world, Ana is consumed by her desire to find the "lost" book. As she delves deeper into the moving account of two lives changed by a meeting on a warm May night, she discovers that the manuscript is not the only mystery contained within the diary's pages. Inspired by the real friendship between Chekho ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Emelin, Lucy Rayner, Kirsten Holly Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005192/bk_harp_005192_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dacha Idylls
Dacha Idylls - Living Organically in Russia's Countryside: ab 34.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Summerfolk
Summerfolk - A History of the Dacha 1710-2000: ab 165.95 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Summerfolk
Summerfolk - A History of the Dacha 1710-2000: ab 22.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Love & Loss Music of Rachmaninoff 2
Rachmaninoff, great pianist that he was, didn't just write Etudes for the piano. That name wasn't enough to describe these huge, virtuosic pieces. He needed a bigger canvas for his bold colors so he called them Etudes-Tableaux- study paintings. Rachmaninoff, a tall dour man had huge hands, perfect for spanning great distances on the piano. His music provides a challenge for most pianists who just reach a little over an octave but studying these pieces brings high rewards. They are not only studies in bravura and virtuosity but musical gems as well that manage to touch the heart. Rachmaninoff used to say that the hardest thing for a composer to do was to write succinctly and economically- a short etude was more difficult for him to write than a concerto. He doe succeed with every one of these compositions. Each Etude-tableau concentrates on one technical issue and this becomes the 'working -out' of his compositional technique. They run the entire range of emotion, Rachmaninoff transports us to the the darker regions of the soul in some of these pieces. His music taps into our hidden emotions and brings them to the surface. One of my favorites is the 'Little Red Riding Hood' etude, Op. 39, No. 6 inspired by the composer reading the familiar story to his little girl one evening. We can clearly hear the cast of characters - unfortunately our heroine meets her demise in the very last bars. These Etudes were the last compositions that Rachmaninoff wrote in Russia, written at his dacha in the snowy Russian countryside. He finally settled in California but yearned for his homeland his entire life- we hear the yearning and the melancholy in all his music, combined here with a fantastic sense of virtuosity and love of the instrument. The recording also includes three well known transcriptions: Fritz Kreisler's beautiful 'Liebesleid,' written originally for the violin, the virtuosic 'Flight of the Bumble-bee by Rimsky Korsakov and to conclude- a transcription of Rachmaninoff's heart-breaking song 'Vocalise.' 'There is no feeling that she is trying to impress with her virtuosity, she lives in the music of her chosen composers, and conveys what Rachmaninoff himself hoped that his music would express, what is in his heart when composing, be it 'love or bitterness, sadness or religion.'' 'What you have here is an ideal balance between brain and heart.' Awarded 6 stars- top rating by Klassisk Magazine, Norway.- Shop: odax
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