Orlanda

There is a voice in Aline’s head—a voice that wants to break free. Brash, loud, and sexually adventurous, it seems the antithesis of this strait-laced literature professor, whose life unfolds with a tranquility that is as orderly as it is stifling. Yet that order begins to crack when a deeper longing stirs within her: to become someone else, to live through a different identity—in another body—experiencing adventures, passions, and desires that are otherwise forbidden to us... That age-old dream we have all harbored awakens in her as she watches a handsome blond young man named Lucien. Then, the impossible happens: after thirty-five years of confinement, her alter ego breaks free. A part of herself—her masculine side—leaves her female body and slips into the taut, robust frame of the young stranger. She is both Lucien and Aline. The author names this new being Orlanda. While Aline struggles to fully grasp what is happening, Orlanda moves through the world with jubilant freedom, dragging Aline—at once witness and protagonist—into a whirlwind of adventures, intoxicating situations, and amusing moments; in this process, the hidden side of her desires is revealed, and both existences are transformed forever.