Le Clézio lived for fifteen years in a small village in Mexico called Valle de Bravo.

[1] "Le Clézio’s new novel, Ourania, is partly set in a Utopian community on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

We learn about it through one of its inhabitants, Raphael, a sixteen-year-old Inuit and the son of an alcoholic father; the children don’t attend formal school: instead, they spend mornings working the land and afternoons in study and “dialogue”; they receive sex education, without being encouraged to practise it themselves; organized religion is frowned on and the exchange of money forbidden.

"[2]The book won the “annual best foreign novels in 21st century” by the People’s Literature Publishing House (PLPH) January 28, 2007.

In contrast to the reality which is full of clash of civilizations, racial discrimination and language struggle, Campos is like real heaven's reflection on the ground.