Las leyes de la ascensión

Belleville, emblematic Parisian neighborhood of urban eclecticism. six characters. Four days spread over the four seasons of 2015, the year of the terrorist attacks in Paris. A journalist, a psychiatrist, a retiree, a teacher, an unemployed woman and a high school student: their intertwined stories following the whims of chance explore the triggers, the precise moments and the intimate changes that can turn their lives upside down in a generous city in times, often hostile, and always effervescent. Pure present, this dazzling choral novel is subtle, elegant and sometimes melancholy, and brings us closer to existences full of aspirations, weaknesses, longings, excesses, dreams and uncertainties about the future... In one way or another, all the protagonists rebel, and they do it moved by a great empathy, a great humanity: not in vain, this book is dedicated to love; not to the love of a couple -or not only-, but to love in its broadest sense: to the world, to the neighbor, to a city, to the earth, to oneself.