Romain Gary creator Pseudo / Émile Ajar creator Manheim, Ralph Tr text New York A New Directions Book 1986 monographic eng

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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 French Literature Tr in English 843.914 GARL 081120961x 220105 20260130092647.0