La Vie Devant Soi (Collection Folio)

by Romain Gary

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Info:	Gallimard Education (1998), Paperback, 273 pages
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Tags:	France, judaism, islam, racism, growing up

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Written by a French diplomat (under a nom de plume) through the eyes of the abandoned teenaged son of an immigrant prostitute, this gem has uncanny resonance. It evokes a life in which morbid humour is the first line of defence against despair -- very funny and totally without self-pity. (

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