Ian McEwan is one of the “ruling triumvirate” of modern British prose (along with Julian Barnes and Martin Amis), a six-time finalist for the Booker Prize - and winner for his novel Amsterdam. Again, in front of us, in the words of the venerable critic from “Afisha” Lev Danilkin, “a typical McEwan, where the second word denotes not the uniqueness of the author, but actually the genre.” So, meet Michael Beard - a famous scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, author The Beard-Einstein couple, an apologist for wind and solar energy, as well as an incorrigible slob and womanizer, is trying to understand why his fifth marriage is falling apart. Is it really not his eleventh betrayal, but her first?..For the first time in Russian.