by Émile Ajar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481091472
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«La vida ante sí» is the novel by Émile Ajar, published by Galaxia Gutenberg in paperback (245 pages, in Spanish).
Momo, an orphaned boy of Arab origin who grows up in Paris in the care of Madame Rosa, an elderly Jewish woman and former prostitute, faces life in a multicultural and marginal neighbourhood. Between the two, a relationship of tenderness and rebellion is woven, while the story addresses identity, loneliness, friendship and the search for meaning.
Romain Gary wrote the novel under the pseudonym Émile Ajar; this Spanish edition was published in 1997.
For readers of French fiction interested in stories about childhood, marginalisation and emotional bonds.
Romain Gary, also known by the pen name Émile Ajar, was a Lithuanian-born French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century.
