Три пары

Tri supruzheskie pary sobirai͡utsi͡a v zagorodnom dome, chtoby otmetitʹ sorok vosʹmoĭ denʹ rozhdenii͡a odnogo iz nikh. Dli͡a vsekh ėto povod nenadolgo otvlechʹsi͡a ot deteĭ, beskonechnykh schetov i pozhilykh roditeleĭ.Posle vechera v bare, imeninnik predlagaet igru - na odnu nochʹ pomeni͡atʹsi͡a partnerami. Kazhetsi͡a, nikto ne vosprini͡al ėtu idei͡u vserʹez, no v kakoĭ-to moment iz biblioteki propadai͡ut neskolʹko chelovek. Na sledui͡ushchee utro nikto ne govorit o tom, chto proizoshlo. No zhena imeninnika teperʹ s nim ne razgovarivaet, ego podruga stranno posmatrivaet na nego, i kazhetsi͡a, chto vse znai͡ut nemnogo bolʹshe, chem on sam. Chto zhe proizoshlo toĭ nochʹi͡u? I chem teperʹ obernetsi͡a dli͡a kazhdogo vecher, kotoryĭ kto-to ne pomnit, a kto-to ne mozhet zabytʹ?"Roman "Normalʹnye li͡udi", napisannyĭ dli͡a zhenatykh". - Irish Times"I͡A vli͡ubilasʹ v ėtot dublinskiĭ li͡ubovnyĭ mnogougolʹnik... Istorii͡a o trudnosti͡akh i soblaznakh sovremennogo braka raskryvaet razrushitelʹnye posledstvii͡a ėgoizma". - Daily Mail- Ty kogda-nibudʹ chuvstvoval, chto brak inogda pokhozh na malyĭ biznes: bukhgalterii͡a, upravlenie personalom, obuchenie, podderzhanie krasoty na vitrine?Konor zasmei͡alsi͡a.- Za iskli͡ucheniem togo, chto nelʹzi͡a uvolitʹ personal za rastratu.- Mozhno. Ėto nazyvaetsi͡a razvod.

Three married couples gather in a country house to celebrate the forty-eighth birthday of one of them. For everyone, this is an excuse to take a short break from children, endless bills and elderly parents.After an evening at the bar, the birthday boy suggests a game — to switch partners for one night. No one seems to have taken this idea seriously, but at some point several people disappear from the library. The next morning, no one talks about what happened. But the birthday boy's wife doesn't talk to him anymore, his girlfriend looks at him strangely, and it seems that everyone knows a little more than he does. What happened that night? And what will happen now for every evening that someone doesn't remember and someone can't forget?"The novel Normal People, written for married people." — Irish Times"I fell in love with this Dublin love polygon... The story of the difficulties and temptations of modern marriage reveals the devastating consequences of selfishness." — Daily Mail— Have you ever felt that marriage is sometimes like a small business: accounting, human resources management, training, maintaining beauty in the window?Conor laughed.— Except that you can't fire staff for embezzlement.— You can. It's called a divorce.