Amsterdam

Ian McEwan — one of the authors of the "ruling triumvirate" of contemporary British prose (alongside Julian Barnes and Martin Amis). His "Amsterdam" won the Booker Prize. The Russian translation of the novel became an intellectual bestseller, and Viktor Golyshev's work was awarded the Russian "Small Booker" prize, awarded for the first and only time specifically for a translation.
Two friends — a successful editor of a popular daily newspaper and a famous composer working on the "Symphony of the Millennium" — make an agreement about euthanasia: if one of them falls into a state of oblivion and loses control over himself, the other is obliged to kill him...