For the novel “All of My Life Ahead,” an unknown writer Emil Ajar was awarded France’s highest literary prize, given only once in a lifetime—the Goncourt Prize. Much later it turned out that no such Ajar exists at all: this pseudonym became yet another literary mask of the great hoaxer Romain Gary.
The novel that exploded French literature brought Gari-Ajar his second Goncourt Prize—something unprecedented, the only case in history.
Momo, Mohammed—an Arab boy left without his mother and thrown onto the streets in a poor district of Paris. Madame Rosa is an old Jewish woman who has no one left in her life and almost nothing at all. It seems they are doomed to die—at least spiritually. But no: the power of love creates the incredible…