by Marcela Serrano · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681902650
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«Antigua Vida Mía» is the novel by Chilean author Marcela Serrano, published by Alfaguara in paperback (366 pages, in Spanish).
The novel narrates the reunion of two friends after years of separation; upon meeting again, secrets and the memory of a shared traumatic episode surface. From that memory, it explores female friendship, personal identity, and the possibility of reconciling with the past.
The work was originally published in 2000. The novel belongs to contemporary Hispanic American narrative.
For readers interested in the narrative of Chilean women authors and in stories about friendship, memory, and reconciliation.
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."
