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The Life Before Us (Paperback)
Romain Gary; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Afterword by James Laughlin
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R415
R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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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.
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The Kites (Paperback)
Romain Gary; Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
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R300
R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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A New York Times Notable Book 2018 'A rebel French writer ... a
brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most
original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from
beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity
of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender
and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the
art of dialogue' Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the
Hedgehog A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old
and lives with his uncle, a kindly, eccentric creator of elaborate
kites. One day, sitting in a strawberry field, Ludo meets the
beautiful young Polish aristocrat Lila. And so begins Ludo's
lifelong adventure of love and longing for Lila, who only begins to
return his feelings just as Europe descends into the devastation of
World War 2. After Poland and France fall, Lila and Ludo are
separated. Ludo's friends in the village must find their own ways
of resisting: the local restaurateur who is dedicated above all to
France's haute cuisine, a Jewish brothel madam who sleeps with her
unwitting enemies and Ludo, who cycles past the Nazis every day,
passing on messages for the French Resistance - thinking always of
Lila.
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Promise at Dawn (Paperback)
Romain Gary; Translated by John Markham Beach
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R300
R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio,
Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce,
eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And
she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic autobiography, is the
story of his journey from poverty in Eastern Europe to the sensual
world of the Cote d'Azur and on to wartime pilot, resistance hero,
diplomat, filmmaker, star and one of the most famed French writers
of his age.
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