Te llamaré Francia

During his childhood in Girardot, Colombia, Rubén preferred the world of women. As a teenager, he went to Bogotá, cross-dressed, and worked as a prostitute. After his transition, he chose the name of the country where he 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 his story at the frenetic pace of one of his workdays: the Bois de Boulogne, seventeen clients, fourteen services accepted; in other words, countless men who have come to find him, to lose themselves, or to find themselves again in him. But the novel doesn't stop at the experience of France; it also gives 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 interconnections, but also a kaleidoscopic portrait of our world.