Matilde, mi primera novela publicada.

Matilde es mi primera novela publicada por Editorial Norma en el año 2016 en Argentina y luego en Chile y en Perú. Trabajé un año en escribirla y luego casi un año en reescribirla con mis editora.
En el año 2017 fue seleccionada para el catálogo White Ravens por la JB.
En el año 2019 ganó la medalla Colibrí a mejor novela juvenil editada en Chile.

Dice el catálogo de la Internationale Jugendbibliothek:
"The time of the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-1989) has only recently been broached in children’s and young adult literature. In her debut novel, Carola Martinez Arroyo, a Chilean native author who has long lived in Argentina, portrays that time through the experiences of a child. Matilde, who is approximately ten years old, grows up in the 1980s without her father, one of the thousands of the regime’s “disappeared” victims. Matilde’s mother and friends of the family also face the threat of persecution. The girl, who experiences her mother’s and grandmother’s suffering, insecurity, fears, taboos, and sense of powerlessness, wishes nothing more fervently than to live a “normal” life like other children. When the situation comes to a head, mother and daughter finally get themselves to safety in exile. Martinez draws this portrait of an injured childhood against the concrete background of Chilean history. At the same time, her moving, unsettling novel has a universal character, since it shows that Matilde’s story can repeat itself anywhere and anytime."