"The Lion" - a romantic story about a girl and an African lion - is a bestseller of modern French literature, which had a sensational circulation of 1 million copies in France. The novel "Lisbon Lovers" was written by the brilliant 20th century novelist, member of the French Academy Joseph Kessel. “What love really does to people...” Only circumstances incompatible with the usual course of human affairs - even if in themselves they are bitter and terrible - give happiness the special poignancy that the love of J. Kessel’s heroes has acquired.