El último hombre blanco
With incisive, clear-eyed prose, Nuria Labari tells the story of a woman who believed she needed to climb a mountain—only to wish, once she reached the summit, that she could blow it up.
At forty-four, the woman at the heart of this novel has become a true “businessman”: she earns two hundred thousand euros a year and has reshaped her body, her time, her language, even her sex life in order to wield as much power as a man, to be accepted in their circles, to win their full trust, and finally to become one of them. At the peak of her career—after years of living, thinking, and earning exactly like her male colleagues—she looks back on her metamorphosis, from the first time she felt she had been born on the wrong side, to the moment she realizes that her professional triumph is also the result of a monstrous personal transformation.
El último hombre blanco can be read as the chronicle of a woman infiltrating the seams of the labor market, or as the testimony of a powerful, opaque man who for the first time takes the floor, ready to tell the truth.
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«The book I didn’t know I needed this year: a nightmare journey into the heart of a system where we are no longer bodies, only labor. Labari gives us the exact words to name what harms us, and the fury we need to finally tear it all down.» Aixa de la Cruz, author of Las herederas
«A brilliant, clear-eyed dissection of what it means today to be both woman and man—separately, and all at once.» Agustín Fernández Mallo, author of The Nocilla Trilogy
