His first book, brought to your attention, won the Somerset Maugham Award for best debut. In his early stories, the author demonstrates a wide range of stylistic experiments “It was a kind of laboratory for me,” he said in an interview, “a way to try out different registers, find yourself as a writer" In McEwan's laboratory, the great-grandson of an outstanding amateur mathematician of the 19th century repeats his great-grandfather's experiments in the field of stereometry of human bodies, teenagers organize a men's triathlon (smoking - drinking - women), and a victim of a difficult childhood gives an interview without getting out of the closet. Three stories from this collection were filmed - the title one, "Stereometry" and "Butterflies" (twice). For the first time in Russian - and performed by Vasily Arkanov, to whom we owe the brilliant translations of Jonathan Safran Foer's novels "Full Illumination" and "Terribly Loud Incredibly Close" "For the first time in Russian.