Date 03 October 2019
Pages 312
Format cm 15 x 23
Price € 20.00
EAN 9782258163522

Miracles on the Ourcq

Keywords Paris
A bohemian village on the edges of Paris, along the Canal de l’Ourcq. A communauté insolente de vie malgré les coups durs, qui cherche un sens à la vie. Et l’amour…

On the edges of the Canal de l’Ourcq in Paris, a marginalized population has built villages of houses improvised from cardboard and plastic tarps. Meet the Old Man, who stays in his trailer all day and knits after his life crashed and burned; Sandra, who has Tourette's syndrome; Bella, the clairvoyant, and Noury the musician. There is also Juno, the illiterate Brazilian poet, madly in love with a disabled writer whose star is rising. These down-on-their-luck folk could use a helping hand from fate. That's when miracles start happening on the Ourcq...