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“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books The best-known book by Cuba’s most important...

A man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their new home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9/11, the man revels in the Portuguese capital's temperate weather and the neighborhood's calmness, meticulously planning the details of their future.

From an international bestselling author, this modern romance story explores whether distance and separation can ever keep true love apart. Published for the first time in English, One Step to You has captured the hearts of millions and garnered a dedicated fan base across the world. The Romeo...

When Richard Hannay returns to London after an action-packed life in Rhodesia, he finds life unbearably dull. He is on the point of leaving the city in search of adventures, when mystery and intrigue turns up at his door in the shape of Franklin Scudder, Hannay’s neighbour, who turns out to be a spy trying to escape the clutches of a shady international organisation, bent on sparking a European war. When Scudder is mysteriously murdered and all the evidence seems to point to Hannay himself, he escapes to Scotland, bearing Scudder’s cryptic coded notebook, which he struggles to decipher.

В шаге от любви - роман Вероники Крымовой и Ирины Коняевой, жанр современный любовный роман, юмористическая проза, современная проза.

Un soir, dans un restaurant parisien. Une dizaine de couples, certains en devenir, d'autres au bord de la rupture, sont venus dîner. Le temps d'un repas, les regards se cherchent, se fuient, les mains se frôlent, se retirent. Et chacun projette sur ses voisins une vie, miroir de ses propres fêlures et désirs inassouvis. Une scène en apparence banale. Pourtant, ce soir, les convives jouent gravement leur partition à chacune des tables du restaurant.