Ian McEwan is one of the “ruling triumvirate” of modern British prose (along with Julian Barnes and Martin Amis), winner of the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam. In his early stories (and McEwan never returned to the short form, focusing on novels) 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, to find myself as a writer.” Skillfully balancing on the line between the sublime and the macabre, he shows us post-apocalyptic London and the beloved monkey of a popular writer, a businessman inflamed with a passion for a tailor's mannequin, and a father jealous of his teenage daughter for her dwarf friend... For the first time in Russian.