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Based on real events, her story transforms an individual biography into a mirror of modern Spanish history.<\/span><\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Manuela Saborido, known as Manolita Chen, sits in pretrial detention accused of drug trafficking. She is over sixty and carries a life shaped by persecution. From her cell, while awaiting trial, she retraces the path that led her there: first as a trans woman in Francoist Spain, later as someone who never fully fit into the democracy that followed.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Her story begins in Arcos de la Frontera, C\u00e1diz. As a child, she is punished for expressing a feminine identity deemed unacceptable. She endures family violence, arbitrary arrests, forced institutionalization, and electroshock \u201ctherapies\u201d imposed by the State. The message is constant: correct yourself or disappear. In the face of such pressure, she finds her only possible escape\u2014the stage. Singing, makeup, transformation\u2014performance becomes resistance and survival.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Her escape to Barcelona marks the beginning of her adult life and artistic career. In the city\u2019s red-light district, she enters the professional world of drag performance. She undergoes clandestine hormone treatments, works in nightclubs, and survives exploitation, prostitution, and police harassment. Despite everything, her talent and determination propel her toward recognition: she wins competitions, performs in renowned venues, creates her own company, and achieves notoriety that crosses borders.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">After Franco\u2019s death, Manolita participates in the first LGTBI demonstrations. With the arrival of democracy, the laws that criminalized her disappear\u2014but the stigma remains. She returns to her hometown, opens businesses, tries to build stability, and forms a family, adopting a daughter. For years she lives away from the spotlight until her ex-husband is arrested for drug trafficking, casting suspicion over her once again. Eventually, the same case reaches her: the Guardia Civil searches her home, and Manolita is arrested on charges of drug trafficking.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">The narrative unfolds from this present of confinement, but it is Manolita\u2019s life that drives the story. Through multiple voices\u2014family members, police officers, fellow performers\u2014an existence marked by institutional violence and social rejection emerges, alongside an unbreakable will to live. Past and present intersect, revealing how repression was not an isolated episode but a pattern that extended across decades.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">The novel is structured as a choral narrative crossing three key moments: childhood under Francoism, the trans performance circuit of the 1970s and 1980s, and a present that once again places her body under suspicion.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Beyond the portrait of one woman, Manolita\u2019s life is also the story of a country\u2014from the enforced silence of dictatorship to the incomplete promises of democracy. A life that allows us to traverse more than half a century of Spanish history from the margins, giving face and voice to a memory long made invisible.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\">RELEVANT INFORMATION:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Abraham Guerrero Tenorio is a Spanish poet, novelist, and educator, awarded the <b>Premio Adon\u00e1is de Poes\u00eda<\/b> (2020), one of the most prestigious prizes in Spanish-language poetry, and the <b>Premio El Ojo Cr\u00edtico de Poes\u00eda<\/b> (2021). 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