Justo antes del final

This is the story of a woman who faced her time and her world, but it is also the story of that time and that world: the second half of the 20th century and the first decades of the century we are in. In Just before the end, the life of the protagonist, a life marked by invisibility, illness, madness and violence, but also by resilience, will, affection and care for oneself and others, comes into tension with some of the great events in public life: the arrival of the contraceptive pill, the invention of the instant camera, the development of treatments for mental illness, the space race and the race for the perfect hearing aid, the discovery of antimatter, the diagnosis of the Asperger spectrum, research to extend life, the Kyoto protocol... Back in autobiographical territory, Emiliano Monge has achieved something that seemed impossible: a novel that is both a portrait and a mural. The portrait of a mother and the mural of the world we live in.