Иэн Макьюэн - one of authors of "ruling triumvirate" of modern British prose (along with Julian Барнсом and Martin Эмисом). His "Amsterdam" got Букеровскую bonus. Russian translation of novel became the intellectual best seller, and work of Victor Голышева was marked the Russian bonus "Small Букер", in first and only times awarded exactly for translation.Two friends is a successful editor-in-chief popular daily and famous composer working on "Symphony of millennium", - make agreement about euthanasia: if one of them will fall in the state of unconsciousness and will leave off to control itself, then other is obligated to kill him.More interesting facts about work of author read in