Ian McEwan is approaching 80 years old with no intention of slowing down his creative pace. Born in 1948 in Aldershot (England), the author of Atonement (2001) and Saturday (2005) –both available in English at Anagrama– has recently experienced the loss of some of his generational peers, such as Martin Amis, who passed away in 2023, and has also witnessed other novelists announce that they were stopping their writing, as in the case of Julian Barnes. "For some time now, I have had to attend a few funerals of people I knew, and I have realized the amount of things that I did not know about them. The dead observe us with a touch of shame and another of pride for all that we do not know about them," explains McEwan from his home, on the occasion of the presentation of his new novel.