The novel 'Fin de Temporada’ (End of season) explores the story of a toxic motherhood in Spain in the 90s.
(...) "How beautiful the 'campsites' are," exclaims Ignacio Martínez de Pisón (Zaragoza, 1960) with amusement as he launches into a detailed explanation of his latest novel, 'Fin de Temporada' (Seix Barral). And it is that in his book, a wandering mother and son end up running one in Miami Platja at the end of the 90s, with nuclear power plants at each end of the horizon. As he explains it, it is easy to see the bright, photogenic colors of the place, because in this novel, as in almost all of his works, what matters is the everyday, the familiar and that gaze capable of finding a "precarious beauty" among the shops, the bungalows and bodies in the sun.
'End of season' was born, says the author, from a bar conversation with a friend from Extremadura. It was the story of a wedding couple from Plasencia who, barely out of adolescence, she with 17 and he two years older, decided to move to Portugal to go to an abortion clinic. Along the way, a traffic accident took his life and made her change her mind. She would have the son. “The good thing about that story is that I only knew the start, my friend couldn't give me more information. This allowed me to give free rein to my imagination and to build the destiny of that mother and that son at will (...)
