Voy a ser el último
Luzia · LGTB · Narrativa · Adultos (+18 años)
Synopsis
Fernando is 24. He studied journalism, but works at the fruit counter of a large supermarket chain in Madrid, where he shares a flat with Miriam, his best friend and fellow master's student. His life moves between shifts, nights out with his group of friends and a distant relationship with parents who live on the Murcian coast. Everything changes on the night of his birthday, when a teenager from the building takes his own life after being bullied at school because of his sexuality. The event stirs questions Fernando has spent years avoiding: about his own identity, his place in the world and the price he has paid for learning to go unnoticed. As he tries to pull himself together, a colleague from the supermarket's fish counter begins targeting him with comments and humiliations that grow steadily more aggressive. Fernando reports it to the personnel department, but the company's indifference leaves him entirely without protection. The harassment escalates to a late-night encounter in the street, where a struggle ends with the accidental death of his attacker. Seized by panic, Fernando hides the body and runs south towards Murcia, stealing a neighbour's car through a calculated sexual deception. On the road, the novel alternates the tension of the flight with Fernando's interior voice as he argues with the ghost of the man he has killed in a reckoning that is as moral as it is visceral. Meanwhile, a photographic project Miriam has been working on — a portrait of Fernando's family history — uncovers a secret kept for twenty-four years: the woman who raised him is not his biological mother but his aunt, who became pregnant at sixteen by the man who is now his father. The revelation arrives at the height of the flight, and the two strands converge in a finale on the coast at Mazarrón, where Fernando must finally face the consequences of everything he has done and everything that has been hidden from him. Voy a ser el último is a novel about the homophobia that persists in the margins of institutions, about the secrets that hold families together and about the breaking point at which survival becomes indistinguishable from revenge.
Machine translation, pending review.
Selling points
- Voz narradora que rompe la cuarta pared e interpela directamente al lector desde la primera página
- Inspirada en hechos reales: el autor, psicólogo social, documenta el acoso homófobo con precisión clínica y rabia literaria
- Estructura de thriller psicológico con un secreto familiar que estalla junto al crimen central
- Retrato generacional de la precariedad laboral española sin idealizar a víctimas ni a verdugos
- Ópera prima del sello Luzia, especializado en talento literario emergente con mentoría editorial
- Escenario dual Madrid-Murcia que contrasta anonimato urbano y peso del origen familiar
- Humor negro y ternura conviven con la violencia extrema, sin golpes de efecto gratuitos
Comparable titles
- La mala costumbre, Alana S. Portero
- Real Life, Brandon Taylor
- Las malas, Camila Sosa Villada
Technical data
- ISBN
- 979-13-990167-1-0
- Format
- Softcover
- Pages
- 176
- Dimensions
- 152 × 228 mm
- Weight
- 360 g
- RRP
- €18.00 (VAT included)
- Publication
- 5 June 2025
- Edition
- Edition 1
- Legal deposit
- M-10268-2025
- Language
- es
- Imprint
- Luzia
- Series
- LGTB
- Age
- Adultos (+18 años)
Classification
Ficción LGTBIQ+ · Thriller psicológico · Novela de iniciación · Drama social
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Distribution: Azeta in Spain · Panoplia de Libros in Latin America · Direct distribution from the publisher
Rights
Translation rights available for all languages.
Voy a ser el último is the debut novel of José Miguel Hernández Gómez, a Spanish social psychologist turned novelist, published by Luzia, the emerging-talent imprint of Durii Editorial. Narrated in a confrontational first person that directly addresses the reader, the novel follows Fernando, a 24-year-old aspiring journalist working a dead-end supermarket job in Madrid, as sustained homophobic harassment from a coworker collides with institutional indifference. When a late-night confrontation ends in his harasser's accidental death, Fernando flees south to his hometown in Murcia, dragging both a body and, unknowingly, a decades-old family secret about to surface through his roommate's photography project. Blending psychological thriller pacing with unflinching social critique, the novel refuses easy redemption: its protagonist is neither a perfect victim nor a clean-cut villain, and the narrative dares readers to sit with that discomfort. Inspired by real events and grounded in the author's clinical background, it speaks to the same readership that embraced Alana S. Portero's La mala costumbre and Brandon Taylor's Real Life, while offering a distinctly Spanish setting —contrasting anonymous urban Madrid with the weight of small-town origin in Murcia's Mar Menor coast. With strong visual imagery (a locked locker room, a fish left as a threat, a car racing down an empty highway toward a sunset coastline), the novel also carries clear adaptation potential for film or limited series. We believe this title offers international publishers a timely, provocative entry point into contemporary Spanish LGBTQ+ fiction that does not shy away from moral ambiguity.
José Miguel Hernández Gómez
Córdoba · 1999
José Miguel Hernández Gómez grew up in Gran Canaria until the age of eighteen, when he moved to Madrid to study. He holds a degree in Social Psychology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has worked with people with Down syndrome, as well as managing social media for a psychology practice. At twelve he joined a scout group, where he began exploring life in small communities and the dynamics of teamwork. That experience sparked his interest in different social and environmental realities. He continues to be involved in scouting today, with a focus on sexuality and equality in education. Voy a ser el último is his first novel, inspired by real events.
Machine translation, pending review.
