01122nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200220008810000160011011000260012624500310015226000420018330000250022552005750025065000330082565000360085871000220089420260130092647.0220105b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a081120961x  cAL  aeng  223a843.914bGARL  aRomain Gary  aPseudo / Émile Ajar  aLife Before Us: Madam Rosa  aNew YorkbA New Directions Bookc1986  a191 p.bPBc20x13 cm  aMomo 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.  aFrench Fiction Tr in English  aFrench Literature Tr in English  aManheim, Ralph Tr