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Antigua and My Life Before:a Novel
[Paperback - 2001]
marcela serrano
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Anchor | ISBN: 9780385498029 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .397 | Dimensions: 5.19 x .88 x 8 inches

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Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt for not having foreseen the tragedy, Josefa feels compelled to tell Violeta's life story--one marked by lost ideals, disillusionment, and grief--which is ultimately Josefa's story, too. Through the interwoven lives of these two women, Marcela Serrano explores how the demands of a woman's role as mother, wife, lover, and friend are frequently at odds with her own dreams and aspirations, and how easily the fragile bonds of friendship and family can be strained to the breaking point. For Josefa and Violeta, it is only in Antigua, under the watchful eyes of "the others"--a chorus of female ancestral spirits who testify to the women's defining moments of strength and courage--that Josefa and Violeta will discover that even in the aftermath of violence and betrayal they have control over their destinies and their redemption.

Exquisitely crafted and written in beautiful, lyrical prose, Marcela Serrano's unforgettable novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances speaks to every woman who has experienced the wrenching divide between professional ambition and family responsibility, who has been torn between the excitement of illicit passion and the security of marriage, who has craved the thrill of success while yearning for solitude in an often chaotic, invasive world.

About the Author

Marcela Serrano nació en Santiago de Chile. Licenciada en Grabado por la Universidad Católica, entre 1976 y 1983 trabajó en diversos ámbitos de las artes visuales, especialmente en instalaciones y acciones artísticas (entre ellas el body art). Entre sus novelas, que han sido publicadas con gran éxito en Latinoamérica y Europa, llevadas al cine y traducidas a varios idiomas, destacan Nosotras que nos queremos tanto (1991), galardonada en el año 1994 con el Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, distinción concedida a la mejor novela hispanoamericana escrita por mujeres; Para que no me olvides (1993), que obtuvo en 1994 el Premio Municipal de Santiago; Antigua vida mía (1995); El albergue de las mujeres tristes (1997); Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1999); Lo que está en mi corazón (2001), finalista del Premio Planeta España; Hasta siempre, mujercitas (2004); La llorona (2008), Diez mujeres (2012) y La Novena (2016). También es autora del volumen de cuentos Dulce enemiga mía (2013).

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