2016 Interallié Prize

Aurore is a renowned stylist and Ludovic is a farmer turned debt collector. They have nothing in common except for a curious problem: crows have taken up residence in the courtyard of their Parisian building. She is terrified of them, while her fiery neighbor would know how to get rid of them. For this young woman, who both intimidates and repels him, he will kill them. This first step will lead them down a perilous path that, from complicity to romantic confusion, will gradually distance them from their reasonable daily lives. In this great novel of love and disorder, Serge Joncour casts his gaze far and wide: by bringing the contemporary world and the intimate universe into collision, he depicts our opposing aspirations, the city and the countryside, solidarity and selfishness, in a context of general societal disorder where, ultimately, love seems to be the last means of resistance.