From the author of contemporary British prose, famous for his novels 'Amsterdam,' 'Atonement,' 'Unbearable Love,' and many others, Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan. Intellectual prose in every sense. Against the backdrop of the political situation in England, when the time has come for Margaret Thatcher to leave the post of Prime Minister, and in science, Alan Turing made a breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence, the story of the main characters develops.

Lost loser Charlie falls in love with Miranda, a girl with a deep secret in her past. When Charlie suddenly comes into money, the first thing he does is buy Adam, one of the first androids. Together with Miranda, they create a personality for Adam. The new creature is an almost perfect person. And soon the trinity forms a love triangle.

The author asks the most important questions in the novel: what makes us human? What determines our actions and inner world? Can a machine understand the human heart?

Machines like Adam are our near future. Are we ready to perceive an inanimate machine as an animate creature?

How perfect are androids, and how imperfect are we, sometimes not understanding ourselves.

'The leaves fall.

In the spring we will be reborn,

But, alas, not you.'