by Romain [pseudonym of Emile Ajar] Gary Original title: La vie devant soi [French]
So who is ’Momo’? Momo is the ten-year-old boy who tells this delightfully sharp and funny story about himself and is looked after by the enormous Madame Rosa in the Parisian quarter of Belleville, an area populated by North African Arabs, Jews, Black Africans and some Vietnamese, (more...)