Marc Levy

From international bestselling author Marc Levy comes a witty and beguiling novel of one woman’s unexpected journey to follow her destiny.Alice Pendelbury believes everything in her life is pretty much in order—from her good friends to her burgeoning career. But even Alice has to admit it’s been an odd week. Not only has her belligerent neighbor, Mr. Daldry, suddenly become a surprisingly agreeable confidant, but he’s encouraging her to take seriously the fortune-teller who told her that only by traveling to Turkey can Alice meet the most important person in her life.What’s more, the peculiarly insistent Mr. Daldry has even agreed to finance Alice’s trip—one that against all reason seems to be predestined. It’s on this journey, crazy from the outset and strangely irresistible, that Alice will find out that nothing in her life is real, that her past is not true, and that the six people she’s about to encounter will shape her future in ways she could never have dreamed.Revised edition: Previously published as L’étrange voyage de Monsieur Daldry, this edition of The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury includes editorial revisions.

Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, international bestselling author Marc Levy’s new novel is a page-turning thriller full of courage, resilience, and love. A mother’s love knows no borders, and her fight knows no limits. Veronika, a nurse, returns home to find that her nine-year-old son, Valentyn, has disappeared. Overcome with a mother’s terror but fueled by relentless love, Veronika embarks on a perilous journey to find him. At the same time, her fiercely independent teenage daughter, Lilya, sets off on her own reckless quest for her brother. Their searches are unknowingly aided by a reclusive hacker, a man indebted to Veronika who battles the conspiracy from the shadows. As the family faces unimaginable dangers, their fight for reunion becomes a testament to the enduring power of hope and courage against a monstrous, real-life plot that aims to erase a generation.

Even death can’t break the bond between father and son in an uncannily funny and poignant novel about love, loss, memory, and family by Marc Levy, the bestselling author of P.S. from Paris.There’s nothing too unusual about a father asking his son for a favor—unless, of course, the father in question has been dead for five years.Thomas, a young virtuoso pianist living a quiet, carefully structured life in France, is stunned when his late father, Raymond, suddenly appears in his home. He’s not a ghost in the traditional sense—he’s real enough to ask for help. His request? That Thomas travel with him to San Francisco to find Camille, the long-lost love of his life.For Thomas, it’s as surreal as it sounds. And yet…it might be his last-in-a-lifetime chance to know his father as a man and to square the regrets of the past. Together they embark on a five-thousand-mile journey that questions the very nature of existence, proves that love never fades, and rekindles the curious, heart-tugging bond between a parent and child that somehow endures beyond death.

Mitch, zajadlyj knigotorgovets, odnazhdy utrom arestovan za nemyslimoe prestuplenie: on narushil zakon, prodavaja zapreschennye knigi.Posle pjati let zakljuchenija u nego est tolko odno zhelanie - vnov obresti svobodu i svoj knizhnyj magazin. No sudba reshaet inache. V tot zhe den Mitch stalkivaetsja s prokurorom, kotoryj vynes emu obvinitelnyj prigovor, i vstrechaet Annu, molodogo shef-povara, kotoraja vpolne mozhet stat zhenschinoj ego zhizni.

Mark Levi - frantsuzskij pisatel, odin iz samykh populjarnykh sovremennykh avtorov v zhanre romanticheskoj prozy. Ego roman "Ne takaja, kak vse" - bolshe, chem istorija ljubvi. Avtor podnimaet vazhnye voprosy o chelovechnosti i preodolenii predrassudkov, predlagaja vzgljanut na mir glazami tekh, kto schitaet sebja "ne takim, kak vse". V tsentre sjuzheta - prostye, no silnye chelovecheskie tsennosti: ljubov, sostradanie i vera v luchshee.Na Pjatoj avenju v Nju-Jorke stoit nebolshoe zdanie, nichem ne otlichajuscheesja ot drugikh. Ego zhiltsy shagu stupit ne mogut bez svoego liftera Dipaka, kotoryj upravljaet mekhanicheskim liftom - dikovinnym starinnym mekhanizmom. Bezzabotnaja zhizn obitatelej doma zakanchivaetsja v tot den, kogda kollega Dipaka, nochnoj lifter, padaet s lestnitsy. Sandzhaj, plemjannik Dipaka, neozhidanno priekhav v Nju-Jork iz Mumbai, spasaet polozhenie, zanjav mesto postradavshego. Nikomu i v golovu ne prikhodit, kto on takoj na samom dele... Ne dogadyvaetsja ob etom i Khloja, zhivuschaja na poslednem, devjatom, etazhe.

- Pravilo nomer odin: nikakikh njan; pravilo nomer dva: nikakikh zhenschin v dome; pravilo nomer tri: v krajnem sluchae mozhno vernutsja domoj v polovine pervogo, no ni minutoj pozzhe... Vot tebe i raz! Nu ladno by ot zheny ili ot mamy, no iz ust luchshego druga takogo zanudstva vovse ne ozhidaesh, tem bolee chto ty davno ne junets, a sam uzhe papa i pytaeshsja zanovo vystroit svoju zhizn tak, chtoby ne poddavatsja diktatu zheny, teper uzhe byvshej, i chto-to sebe dokazat... I esli tvoj drug tozhe svoboden (no ne ot vospitanija sobstvennogo rebenka!), a vashi deti otlichno ladjat drug s drugom, to ne uprostit li zhizn muzhskaja solidar... - Pravilo nomer chetyre: ty ne kurish v dome! Da-da, vy sovershenno pravy: realnost gorazdo interesnee, chem ljubye nadumannye pravila i ustanovki, tak chto gerojam etoj polnoj jumora i tonkikh nabljudenij istorii, sozdannoj priznannym frantsuzskim masterom prozy, predstoit prislushatsja k serdtsu, chtoby najti svoe schaste...

Gde imenno, v kakikh glubinakh mozga taitsja samosoznanie - to, chto delaet kazhdogo iz nas unikalnym? I mozhet li nashe "ja" suschestvovat otdelno ot nas? Studenty Khoup, Dzhosh i Ljuk stremjatsja postich tajny chelovecheskogo mozga. Nauchnaja baza predostavljaet im otlichnye vozmozhnosti dlja raboty - ne sluchajno posle cheredy gipotez i eksperimentov oni gotovy skazat v nauke novoe slovo... I ne sluchajno imja Khoup v perevode s anglijskogo oznachaet "nadezhda": kogda ee zhizn vnezapno okazyvaetsja na grani, druzja delajut vse ot nikh zavisjaschee, chtoby realizovat svoj neverojatnyj proekt i podarit miru nadezhdu. Trogatelnaja istorija s nezabyvaemym finalom, igrajuschaja ottenkami smyslov i polnaja chuvstv - vnevremennaja i oslepitelno originalnaja, v dukhe ostalnykh romanov zamechatelnogo frantsuzskogo pisatelja Marka Levi.

Kogda-to ljubov Artura vernula Loren k zhizni; kak i prezhde, ona rabotaet nejrokhirurgom v Memorialnoj bolnitse San- Frantsisko, no posle neskolkikh mesjatsev komy, k sozhaleniju, ne pomnit svoego proshlogo. Odnako Artur nikogda ne zabyval ee, zhenschinu svoej mechty, i sudba svodit ikh snova, khot i na slishkom krutom virazhe. Ona ne uznaet ego, no chuvstvuet neobjasnimoe vlechenie k nemu... Roman odnogo iz samykh populjarnykh frantsuzskikh pisatelej Marka Levi "Vstretitsja vnov" vozvraschaet nas k personazham poljubivshegosja shirokomu chitatelju romana "Mezhdu nebom i zemlej", uspeshno ekranizirovannogo v Gollivude, i prolivaet svet na ikh dalnejshie sudby. Romanticheskaja istorija, polnaja prikljuchenij, neozhidannykh povorotov sjuzheta, radosti i pechali, riska i nastojaschikh chuvstv.

Molodoj arkhitektor snimaet dlja sebja kvartiru i neozhidanno obnaruzhivaet v nej prizrak prekrasnoj devushki, kotoraja nastaivaet, chto eto ee kvartira... Neobychnoe sosedstvo povle- chet za soboj tseluju cheredu situatsij, sobytij i prikljuchenij, kotorye pozvoljat Arturu i Loren vzgljanut na mnogie veschi pod drugim uglom i konechno zhe ispytat na prochnost zaro- divshiesja chuvstva... Etot debjutnyj roman Marka Levi otlichilsja zakhvatyvajuschim sjuzhetom, dal start populjarnosti pisatelja i stal pervoj zvezdoj v sozvezdii ego uspeshnykh proizvedenij. Prava na ekranizatsiju romana priobreteny Stivenom Spil- bergom. Film, nazvannyj v rossijskom prokate "Mezhdu nebom i zemlej", snjat odnim iz samykh populjarnykh rezhisserov Gollivuda Markom Uotersom ("Drjannye devchonki", "Chumovaja pjatnitsa"). V glavnoj roli - Riz Uizerspun ("Blondinka v za- kone", "Shosse", "Stilnaja shtuchka").

V poiskakh tajn zarozhdenija zhizni i osnov Vselennoj Edrien dorogo zaplatil za svoju smelost - on poterjal zhenschinu, kotoruju ljubil. No Edrien delaet vse, chtoby najti Kejru, i peripetii ikh dalnejshej sudby jarko pokazyvajut, chto ljubov - eto velichajshee prikljuchenie, kotoroe ne lisheno opasnostej. Etim romanom, mesto dejstvija kotorogo razvorachivaetsja ot Efiopii do Urala, Mark Levi zavershaet uvlekatelnuju istoriju, nachatuju v "Pervom dne".

Gde nachinaetsja rassvet? I gde zakanchivaetsja den? Pochemu milliony zvezd svetjatsja na nebosvode, a my dazhe ne znaem, chto za miry vraschajutsja vokrug nikh? I s chego vse nachalos?.. On astrofizik i ischet pervoosnovy Vselennoj. Ona arkheolog i ischet "sled" pervogo cheloveka na Zemle. Zagadochnyj amulet, najdennyj v kratere potukhshego vulkana, mozhet posluzhit kljuchom k zagadke vselenskogo masshtaba. No kto-to khochet ljuboj tsenoj pomeshat Edrienu i Kejre raskryt tajnu, ved eto postavit pod somnenie suschestvujuschie versii proiskhozhdenija mira. Dlja dvukh uvlechennykh svoim delom professionalov, muzhchiny i zhenschiny, nachinaetsja chereda puteshestvij s odnogo kontinenta na drugoj... i riskovannykh prikljuchenij, ispytyvajuschikh ikh sudby i ljubov.

Zhizni mnogikh ljudej v opasnosti. Na kartu postavleno buduschee tselogo naroda. Schet idet na minuty. "Gruppa 9", bolee splochennaja, chem kogda-libo, brosaetsja na vypolnenie missii. Reporter-rassledovatel pronikaet na vrazheskuju territoriju. Ot Londona do Minska, ot Vilnjusa do Rima - prikljuchencheskij shpionskij roman s zakhvatyvajuschim saspensom, istorija, kotoraja brosaet vyzov i predlagaet zadumatsja ob okruzhajuschem nas mire. I, kak vsegda u Marka Levi, ljubov vitaet v vozdukhe.

Posle dolgikh poiskov i prikljuchenij Sjuzi Bejker nakonets nakhodit vo ldakh Monblana oblomki samoleta, poterpevshego krushenie mnogo let nazad. Ej udaetsja dazhe obnaruzhit dokument, kotoryj mozhet vosstanovit spravedlivost v otnoshenii ee blizkoj rodstvennitsy, obvinennoj v gosudarstvennoj izmene, no eto komprometirujuschee otkrytie aktiviziruet dejatelnost amerikanskikh sekretnykh sluzhb... V Nju-Jorke reporter Endrju Stilmen vosstanavlivaetsja posle napadenija, edva ne stoivshego emu zhizni. No istorija Sjuzi Bejker nastolko primechatelna, a ee posledstvija nastolko serezny, chto on reshaetsja pojti na risk vo vtoroj raz. Presledovanija, lovushki, manipuljatsii - skolko trudnostej pridetsja preodolet Sjuzi i Endrju, chtoby prikosnutsja k razgadke sokrovennoj tajny?

Roman Marka Levi - istorija molodogo arkhitektora i simpatichnoj devushki - nachinaetsja neobychno. V samom dele! Eta milaja ledi kakim-to obrazom okazyvaetsja v kvartire glavnogo geroja! Devushka vygljadit realno, no... mozhet kak prizrak po svoemu zhelaniju ischezat i pojavljatsja v raznykh mestakh. I pochemu-to ona sovsem ne khochet ukhodit iz etoj kvartiry. Iz-za chego prizrak "zastrjal" mezhdu nebom i zemlej i ne daet pokoja novomu arendatoru svoego doma? Chto derzhit ee dukh na zemle i ne otpuskaet?.. Roman, v kotorom est vse - i tajna, i druzhba, i ljubov, s pervoj stranitsy do poslednej derzhit chitatelja v neizvestnosti i darit nadezhdu na chudo.