Justo Antes del Final / Right Before the End - Emiliano Monge - Bog

In this novel, "the protagonist's life--a life marked by invisibility, sickness, insanity, and violence, but also by resilience, personal will, affections, and the care for oneself and others--comes 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 Asperger's spectrum disorders, research to prolong life, Kyoto's protocol"--Partial translation of Spanish-language summary.