01212nam a22002297a 4500 20260130092647.0 220105b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 081120961x AL eng 23 843.914 GARL Romain Gary 253232 Pseudo / Émile Ajar 12539 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. French Fiction Tr in English 12514 French Literature Tr in English 12515 Manheim, Ralph Tr 12542 ddc GF 221086 221086 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2022-01-05 0 843.914 GARL GF03584 2022-01-05 00:00:00 2022-01-05 GF