Life Before Us

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Title: Life Before Us Author: Romain Gary ISBN: 9780811232418 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reissue Condition Note: New fr om the publisher Publisher Description: Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stairs to their apartment, he determines to support her any way he can. This sensitive, slightly macabre love story between Momo and Madame Rosa has a supporting cast of transvestites, pimps, and witch doctors from Paris's immigrant slum, Belleville. Profoundly moving, The Life Before Us won France's premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Show more