Ian McEwan is one of the best-known British authors of our time. For his debut collection, First Love, Last Rites, he was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize. The novel Amsterdam brought the writer the Booker Prize.
The Russian edition of the novel became an intellectual bestseller, and the translation by Viktor Golyshев received Russia’s “Small Booker” award—the only time this prize has been awarded specifically to a translator.
Two longtime friends—an accomplished chief editor of an influential daily newspaper and a celebrated composer working on the “Symphony of the Millennium”—arrange an euthanasia pact: if either of them loses his memory and sanity, the other must kill him…