A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic.Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary (1914-80), a classic of modern French literature, has all the earmarks of a richly romantic novel. It is all the more thrilling, therefore, to read it and know that this is not fiction but a real-life story. As a young child, …
The Kites begins with a young boy, Ludo, coming of age on a small farm in Normandy under the care of his eccentric kite-making Uncle Ambrose. Ludo's life changes the day he meets Lila, a girl from the aristocratic Polish family that owns the estate next door. In a single glance, Ludo falls in love forever; Lila, on …
Romain GARY (Emile AJAR) La vie devant soi Folio 1982 ------Signé AJAR, ce roman reçut le prix Goncourt en 1975. Histoire d'amour d'un petit garçon arabe pour une très vieille femme juive: Momo se débat contre les six étages que Madame Rosa ne veut plus monter et contre la vie parce que "ça ne pardonne pas" et parce …