Cochabamba

The water of chance can also dance like smoke from insomnia or timeless after-dinner conversation. Thus is born the friendship at first sight between the French diplomat Xavier Dupont and the writer whom he asks to write the novel about the life of his mother, Catherine. Born in Cochabamba, daughter of a Bolivian potentate, wealthy oligarch and symbol of patriarchal tyranny, Catalina knows herself to be the most beautiful woman in the world and even more so when by order of her father she is transported to Paris where she will levitate clouds of tinsel, great luxuries and rub shoulders. with Coco Chanel, Edith Piaf... and Albert Camus. Catalina as Princess of Cochabamba becomes the most belle femme among all Paris and the protagonist of a novel that would seem like a fairy tale, if it were not entirely true. A vaudeville and directionless novel, the mischievous and night owl life that was born in after-dinner conversations to tell and infect until it remains in ink with a rhythm that conquers the reader like an intimate celebration.