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by Emile Ajar · MUNDO ACTUAL DE EDICIONES S. A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788485224418
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«La vida ante sí» is the novel by Emile Ajar, published by Mundo Actual de Ediciones in hardback (223 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Momo, an orphan who grows up in Belleville (Paris) in the care of Madame Rosa, a Jewish former prostitute and survivor of Auschwitz. Amid the misery of the neighbourhood and the decrepitude of his protector, the boy observes the world with irony and tenderness, and with her he forges a bond of unconditional love.
The work won the Prix Goncourt in 1975. This Spanish edition, translated by Ana María de la Fuente, was published in 1976.
Recommended for readers of French literary classics and twentieth-century novels with a child protagonist.
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.
