TY  - BOOK
AU  - Romain Gary
ED  - Pseudo / Émile Ajar
ED  - Manheim, Ralph Tr
TI  - Life Before Us: Madam Rosa
SN  - 081120961x
U1  - 843.914 23
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New York
PB  - A New Directions Book
KW  - French Fiction Tr in English
KW  - French Literature Tr in English
N2  - 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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