A novel is a garden carried in the pocket.
Negotiations are also underway with a Greek publisher.
The novel's timing is fortuitous. Frida Kahlo's life will be featured in two major motion pictures to be filmed this year. Julie Taymor will direct the latter film, which will also star Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Edward Norton and Alfred Molina. The paperback version of Mujica's novel, to be published by Plume Books, a division of Penguin USA, will come out as the two movies begin filming. The novel has Cristina telling her story of sisterly love, jealousy and betrayal to a psychiatrist.