Ian McEwan is one of the most famous modern British prose writers, a Booker laureate.

His novels “Amsterdam” and “The Innocent” were published in our country. The novel “Stop Frame!” offered to the reader translated into Russian for the first time.

An unnamed but easily recognizable Italian city with its palaces, bridges, gondolas and crowds of multilingual tourists, the sweltering summer heat, days full of idleness... An English couple whose love affair with the flow years has entered a calm channel, flowing into the leisurely flow of summer life. The nuances of the relationship between two close people, their conversations full of omissions and belated discoveries, their meaningful silence... Nothing foreshadows the impending explosion, the tragic ending that cut short the measured days, as it turned out, of the happy life of the two.