Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.
Ian McEwan va néixer el 1948, i va començar a escriure el 1970. Viu i treballa a Londres. Pel seu primer llibre, el recull de narracions First love, last rites (1975) va rebre el premi Somerset Maugham del 1976. A més d'In between the sheets (1978), que ara traduïm, ha publicat també tres novel·les: The cement garden (1979), The comfort of strangers (1981) i The child in time (1987).
