Publisher's Synopsis
Lucien, a professional writer, fleeing the exactions and the censorship, finds refuge in the city thanks to Requiem, a friend. Requiem lives mainly on theft and on swindle while Lucien only thinks of writing and living honestly. Around them gravitate gangsters and young girls, retired or runaway men, profit-seeking tourists and federal agents of a non-existent state. 'Tram 83' plunges the reader into the atmosphere of a gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colourfully exotic.
