Life Before Us: Madam Rosa

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Contributor(s):

Manheim, Ralph Tr

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York A New Directions Book 1986Description: 191 p. PB 20x13 cmISBN:

081120961x

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DDC classification:

23 843.914 GARL

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
George Fernandes Collections	St Aloysius Library	Others	843.914 GARL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	GF03584

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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.

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