by Marcela Serrano · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788408076810
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«Lo que está en mi corazón» is the novel by Marcela Serrano, published by Booket in paperback, with 272 pages in Spanish.
The protagonist, Camila, travels to Chiapas to write a report and, in passing, escape a life marked by grief and routine. Amid the contrasts of present-day Mexico, Camila finds herself divided between the need to close her past and the temptation of a new impulse. The novel portrays a contemporary woman facing her contradictions.
The work was a finalist for the Premio Planeta 2001. The Booket edition was published on May 9, 2002 in Barcelona.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories featuring women and in present-day Mexico.
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."
