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Those from the docks

by Nathalie Bianco, published on September 1, 2022 by Éditions Sixième(s).


His favorite quote:

“The invisible ones on the quays also have a life, adventures, dreams, stories, torments and passions under their tinsel.

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Why this book?

  • Because Nathalie Bianco manages to give homeless people their share of poetry.

    She casts a benevolent gaze on them.

    Impossible not to get attached to this gallery of colorful characters.

  • Because this pretty story, with jewels of humanity

    in the decline, makes you dream and risks bringing you a few tears.

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

Near the banks of the Rhône, the daily life of a whole small world of ordinary and wacky marginalized people.

It's not because we don't have a roof over our heads that we can't live wonderful stories.

Characters.

Nono, who “boasts of using very correct French”.

There is Cyrano in him.

Roxanne went from foster home to foster home before being “re-socialised” at 18.

The others call themselves Six Ten, Vava, the Russian, Malik, the Coypus.

Places.

The quays of the Rhône in Lyon.

The time.

Contemporary.

The author.

Nathalie Bianco, originally from Lyon, was revealed by social networks;

it explores the failings of our time.

After

Air currents

(2019), her first novel, she published

Les Printemps

(2020) and

Les Petites

(2021).

This is his fourth.

This book was read with

tears in the corner of the eyes.

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