Madre que estás en los cielos

Synopsis of Madre que estás en los cielos

«Madre que estás en los cielos» is the novel by Pablo Simonetti, published by Alfaguara in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).

At seventy-seven years old, Julia Bartolini decides to write her memoirs while facing an illness. The novel retraces Italian immigration in Chile, the rigid Catholic education, and two children who challenged the norms of their time, and explores the weight of secrecy and denial in the family and the search for redemption.

The work was originally published in 2005; this Alfaguara edition is from 2018 and includes a prologue by the author.

For readers of contemporary Latin American fiction and family novels about identity, secrecy and reconciliation.