The Life Before Us ("Madame Rosa'')
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811209618 (081120961X)
ASIN: 081120961X
Publish date: February 17th 1986
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Roman,
France,
French Literature
Emile Ajar c’est moi. «Mi sono davvero divertito. Arrivederci e grazie». Madame Rosa, grassa e vecchia prostituta ebrea, smesso il mestiere per anzianità, cresce i figli delle giovani meretrici che non vogliono vedersi sottrarre la prole dalle autorità francesi. Momò è uno di loro. Non conosce la ...
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Compte rendu sur mon blog.
3.5 stars I had to read this book for school this summer, and while all my friend moaned and complained, I read this book in a day and found myself actually liking it. It was mostly a sad read, but with a frankness that was as refreshing as it was shocking, and an unapologetic point of view tha...
pour cour de français, mais très bon
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