Read in two languages.The series is presented with bestsellers in English and masterful translations into Russian. You will learn to see the most subtle play of words and styles, and will be able to evaluate your capabilities as a translator.Framboise inherited an album of recipes from her mother — not much, considering that her brother Cassis got a farm, and her older sister Ren-Claude got a wine cellar with all its contents. But the trick is that in the margins of the album, next to the recipes of various dishes and herbal remedies, the mother wrote down her thoughts and confessions about some of the events of her life — in a word, she kept a kind of diary. And in this diary Framboise tries to find answers to the dark mysteries of the past."Harris has created a multi-layered plot, peppered with delightful descriptions of French books and revealing the shaking effect of war on the fragile family structure." — Publishers Weekly"Of her books, this one is the strongest so far: sharp, with bitterness..." — Independent