It would have been impossible to write this book without the assistance of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award (2020), which allowed me to work and carry out research in the British Library just before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
I must also thank the Writer’s Residence of the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, where I wrote part of the novel in the southern spring of 2019.
I would finally like to thank everyone at Editorial Anagrama; María Lynch, who read and commented on the manuscript; and Lilián Pineda, who taught me to dance.