Amsterdam. Amsterdam

For those who want to be the best!
The original text and translation on the pages of one book is an effective way to improve knowledge of the English language.

Ian Mcueen is one of the most famous modern British writers. For the debut book "First Love, the Last Arming" received a prize named after Somerset Maugham. His "Amsterdam" received the Buker Prize.
The Russian translation of the novel became an intellectual bestseller, and the work of Viktor Golyshev was awarded the Russian Prize "Small Bucher", for the first and only time awarded precisely for the translation.
Two friends - a successful editor -in -chief of the popular daily newspaper and the famous composer, creating a "symphony of the millennium", conclude an agreement on euthanasia: if one of them falls into a state of unconsciousness, then the other undertakes to kill him