Momo by Emile Ajar (a.k.a The Life Before Us or Madame Rosa)
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Overview: The Life Before Us is the story of an orphaned Arab boy, Momo, and his devotion to Madame Rosa, a dying, 68-year-old, 220-lb. survivor of Auschwitz and retired "lady of the night."
Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores’ children at Madame Rosa’s boardinghouse 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 earned France’s premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
Emile Ajar is a pseudonym used by Romain Gary. Translation by Ralph Manheim
Genre: Modern Classic French Literature
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* For me, this is one of the best books I ever read or will read. Certainly the best book of the 20th century. You’ll laugh a lot and cry, sometimes at the same time. A very profound book about what it means to love.
