Reader: Pascal Fey
Moderator: Rita Thies
Author: Afonso Reis Cabral (via video interview)

“We love you, Gisberta”, they call out, the johns and viewers of the show where she poses as Marylin Monroe. Later, when the transwoman is forced to reside on an abandoned construction site in Porto, no one cares any more. Young Rafa, who discovers her there, is proud of his secret. An encounter between two individuals on society’s margins. Torn between attraction and scorn, peer pressure and craving for recognition, Rafa slides into a spiral of evil…

Afonso Reis Cabral: Aber wir lieben dich. Translated from Portuguese by Michael Kegler, copyright Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Munich