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Justo antes del final / Right Before the End (Paperback)

Emiliano Monge

Published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (2022)

ISBN 10: 6073816898 ISBN 13: 9786073816892

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. De vuelta al territorio autobiografico, Emiliano Monge ha conseguido en esta nueva novela algo que parecia imposible: una novela que es un retrato a la vez que un mural; el retrato de una madre y el mural del mundo en que vivimos.Esta es la historia de una mujer que se enfrento a su tiempo y a su mundo, pero es tambien la historia de ese tiempo y de ese mundo: la segunda mitad del siglo XX y las primeras decadas del siglo en el que estamos. En Justo antes del final, la vida de la protagonista, una vida marcada por la invisibilidad, la enfermedad, la locura y las violencias, pero tambien por la resiliencia, la voluntad, los afectos y el cuidado de si y de los otros, entra en tension con algunos de los grandes acontecimientos de la vida publica: la llegada de la pildora anticonceptiva, la invencion de la camara instantanea, el desarrollo de tratamientos para las enfermedades mentales, la carrera espacial y la carrera por la protesis auditiva perfecta, el descubrimiento de la antimateria, el diagnostico del espectro Asperger, las investigaciones para alargar la vida, el protocolo de Kioto ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONEmiliano Monge has achieved in his new novel something that seemed impossible: Writing an autobiographical book that is both a portrait and a mural; the portrait of a mother and the mural of the world we live in. This is the story of a woman that challenged her time and the world. But it is also the story of such a time and such a worldthe second half of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first. In Right Before the End, the protagonists lifea life marked by invisibility, sickness, insanity, and violence, but also by resilience, personal will, affections, and the care for oneself and otherscomes into conflict with some of the greatest events in public life: the rise of the birth-control pill, the invention of the instant camera, the development of treatments for mental illnesses, the space race and the race for the perfect hearing prosthesis, the discovery of antimatter, the diagnosis of Aspergers spectrum disorders, research to prolong life, Kyotos protocol Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9786073816892

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