Te Llamare Francia

During her childhood in Girardot, Colombia, Rubén preferred the world of women. As a teenager, she went to Bogotá, where she cross-dressed and worked as a prostitute. After her transition, she chose the name of the city where she decided to settle: Paris, and became France forever. Over the years, this generous, fascinating, and voluptuous woman, this constant fighter, gives everything to live and support her family. Between power and lucidity, violence and commitment, tenderness and hope, the novel tells her story at the frenetic pace of one of her working days: the Bois de Boulogne, seventeen clients, fourteen services accepted; in other words, a multitude of men who have come to find her, to lose themselves, or to rediscover themselves in her. But the novel doesn't stop at France's experience; it also gives a voice to these strangers, these men, these clients, by evoking who they are and the circumstances that bring them there. A novel of hope and survival, extremely sensitive to human connections, but also a kaleidoscopic portrait of our world.