A Thousand Furlongs of Sea is a story of love, friendship, and breaking the shackles of convention and habit in the search for the true vocation. The story of three seemingly successful people unfolds simultaneously in London, on an island in the Caribbean Sea, and in a faraway beautiful city that is yet to be recognized by the readers. But be it under the tropical sun, or in the cold of the north, the three friends have sooner or later got to get honest with themselves and realize what their life has become. The decisions they make will lead to the complete destruction of their old world....

During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary texts available in Russian, despite government restrictions. Based on extensive interviews with literary translators, Made Under Pressure offers an insider's look at Soviet censorship and the role translators played in promoting foreign authors.