Ourania is a 2006 novel written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.
Le Clézio lived for fifteen years in a small village in Mexico called Valle de Bravo. Children invented an imaginary country and ideal, Ourania, and this book describes a near-Utopian society in Mexico. Two types of Utopias are compared to each other: a modest Utopia from the Jesuits and the other an ideal city called Santa Fe de la Laguna. The book mentions the transhumant movement Rainbows (1970âÂÂ1980) and the Salvadoran revolution and its leader, Monsignor Romero. Failure was inevitable. Dreams are necessary, even if reality isn't.
The book won the âÂÂannual best foreign novels in 21st centuryâ by the PeopleâÂÂs Literature Publishing House (PLPH) January 28, 2007.