Life Before Us (Madame Rosa) - Softcover

Gary, Romain; Manheim, Ralph; Laughlin, James

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9780811209618: Life Before Us (Madame Rosa)

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ISBN 10: 081120961X ISBN 13: 9780811209618

Publisher: New Directions, 1986

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Momo, an orphaned Arab boy, struggles to help Madame Rosa, a dying former prostitute and survivor of Auschwitz, whose Paris boarding-house has sheltered other prostitutes' children.

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PublisherNew Directions
Publication date1986
ISBN 10 081120961X
ISBN 13 9780811209618
BindingPaperback
Edition number1
Number of pages192
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Cornell University edition. Translation by Ralph Manheim of "La Vie devant soi" (Gallimard, 1975), with an afterword by James Laughlin. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is new.�191 pages. This novel, awarded the 1975 Prix Goncourt, tells "the story of an orphaned Arab boy, Momo, and his devotion to Madame Rosa, a dying, 68-year-old, 220-lb. survivor of Auschwitz and retired "lady of the night." 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.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1663627574289

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