by Marcela Serrano · Ed. Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422693437
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«Lo que está en mi corazón» is the novel by Marcela Serrano, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (279 pages, in Spanish).
Camila travels to Chiapas to write about the Zapatista uprising for an American magazine. Still broken by the death of her son, the reality of San Cristóbal de las Casas forces her to confront her wounds and rethink her marriage and her relationship with her mother. The title refers to the phrase with which Mayan women end their stories.
The novel was nominated for the Planeta Prize in 2001; this edition was published in 2002. The ISBN of the edition is 9788422693437.
For readers of contemporary fiction in Spanish interested in female protagonists with a social and historical background.
Marcela Serrano is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, Para que no me olvides, won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. She received the runner-up award in the renowned Premio Planeta competition in 2001 for her novel Lo que está en mi corazón. Carlos Fuentes has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times."
