For the first time in Russian - the newest (published in Britain in February 2018) novel by the famous Julian Barnes, Booker Prize winner, commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters, one of the brightest and most original prose writers of modern Britain. “One Story” is “an insightful, jewel-toned analysis of what goes on in the mind and soul of a man in love” (The Times); it is “a deeper and more effective exploration of a theme Barnes had already tackled in A Sense of an Ending, the novel for which he finally won the Booker Prize” (The Observer). “Most of us only have one story at the ready,” writes Barnes. “There are countless events happening, and you can tell as many stories about them as you like. But only one is essential; in the end it’s the only story worth telling.” So meet Paul; he is nineteen years old. At a tennis club in a quiet London suburb he meets Mrs. Susan MacLeod; She's forty-seven. This is where their only story begins - after all, “lovers tend to believe that their story does not fit into any framework or category”...