Life Before Us: Madam Rosa
Romain Gary
Life Before Us: Madam Rosa - New York A New Directions Book 1986 - 191 p. PB 20x13 cm
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, earned France's premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
081120961x
French Fiction Tr in English
French Literature Tr in English
843.914 / GARL
Life Before Us: Madam Rosa - New York A New Directions Book 1986 - 191 p. PB 20x13 cm
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, earned France's premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
081120961x
French Fiction Tr in English
French Literature Tr in English
843.914 / GARL
