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THE RUSSIAN INTERPRETER
The Russian Interpreter
Название: THE RUSSIAN INTERPRETER
Автор: 
Издательство: Faber and Faber
Год:  2015
Страниц:  208
Формат: PDF
Размер: 7.28 mb
Жанр: Faber and Faber
Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis at Moscow university to become involved in all the deceptions of love and East-West relations.
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SKIOS
Skios
Название: SKIOS
Автор: 
Издательство: Faber and Faber
Год:  2013
Страниц:  288
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10.08 mb
Жанр: Faber and Faber
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming — not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality — everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science...