The Life Before Us - Romain Gary

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: France French Literature

Written by Romain Gary
Read by Reza Nasooti
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

This heartbreaking novel by Romain Gary has inspired two movies, including the Netflix feature The Life Ahead

Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores’ children at Madame Rosa’s boarding house 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, The Life Before Us won France’s premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 12-05-22