Marguerite Duras is one of the most read, most fashionable contemporary writers not only in France, but throughout Europe. Her stories and novels are recognized as unusual in content and exquisite in style. They have been translated into many languages, the best of them made into films. The book offered to readers is excellent prose. Fans of romance novels will find wonderful, mysterious and fragrant pages about love in it. Fans of the detective genre will follow with unflagging interest the developments around this terrible crime. Admirers of fine literature will truly enjoy meeting a great artist (“Moderato Cantabile” and “English Mint” are being published in Russia for the first time!).