Description :
14 short stories that take us far away without leaving the proximity of reality. Far away, that is to say elsewhere: in the margins, the folds, the interstices of the city, where those we don't always see live, those who move forward balanced on the tightrope of everyday life. In this book, both modest and incisive, the Brussels author offers a sensitive map of peripheral areas - whether geographical, social or emotional. We pass through simple, almost banal places: a hair salon, a tram at the end of the line, a ZAD in Arlon, a Moroccan snack bar that smells of fries and cumin. Places without sparkle, often relegated to the background, but which Virone illuminates with fine writing, full of tenderness and clairvoyance. Here, the ordinary is a moving backdrop, a theater of minuscule resistances, where the trivial becomes subversive. The characters are neither heroes nor victims. They are women and men who tinker with bits of meaning in a world that overwhelms them. They try, fail, start again. They love, are frightened, are indignant. They persist in inhabiting the world," despite the injunctions, despite the inertia, with a stubborn energy that commands respect. Their precariousness is never caricatured; it is expressed accurately, without pathos or miserabilism." (Brussels Niews)