La vie devant soi

A love story between a young Arab boy and a very elderly Jewish woman. Momo struggles against the six floors Madame Rosa no longer wants to climb and against life itself, because "it doesn't forgive" and because "you don't need reasons to be afraid." The young boy will help her hide in her "Jewish hole," so she won't have to go to the hospital to die. This way, she will be able to benefit from the sacred right of "peoples to dispose of themselves," a right not respected by the Medical Association. He will keep her company until she dies, and even beyond death. Signed by Ajar, this novel won the Goncourt Prize in 1975.