La víspera

Amalia turns sixty-five tomorrow. But today is still the eve. She shuts herself in at home to prepare food and clean until everything shines while she waits for her children. Outside, police and journalists occupy the town because of an event that paralyzes the country for twenty-four hours. In this unsettling story that unfolds in a single day, an unforgettable protagonist, Amalia Constenla, pushes moral boundaries and draws the reader into a journey of sacrifice, guilt, and redemption. Manuel Jabois constructs, around a mother and her son, an uncomfortable inquiry into the origin and destiny of the first institution of all: the family.