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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
En français c'est tellement drôle que j'ai ri à voix haute au public mais aussi l'histoire ça me brisait le cœur. Merci Momo pour l'empathie.
Il faut aimer !
Il faut aimer !
dark
funny
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The life of a young boy living with a ex-prostitute who houses the children of other prostitutes. The story is told from his own perspective, with dark humour. It is funny but heart wrenching in that his thoughts are akin to an adult’s realism, but with a child’s innocence. Momo so loveable and the community that the marginalised form to care for one another is beautiful.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I have read this book many times in English and adore it like none other. La version française est tellement merveilleuse. It is the most bittersweet story you will ever read.
چی بگم من...؟ :(
هرچند که محمد خیلی بی تربیت بود (!) ولی واقعا کتاب جالب و خوب و در عین حال غم انگیزی بود برام!
"در درونم چیزی اتفاق افتاده بود و بدترین چیزها همیشه در درون آدم اتفاق می افتد. اگر اتفاق در بیرون بیافتد، مثل وقتی که اردنگی می خوریم، می شود زد به چاک. اما از درون غیر ممکن است."
هرچند که محمد خیلی بی تربیت بود (!) ولی واقعا کتاب جالب و خوب و در عین حال غم انگیزی بود برام!
"در درونم چیزی اتفاق افتاده بود و بدترین چیزها همیشه در درون آدم اتفاق می افتد. اگر اتفاق در بیرون بیافتد، مثل وقتی که اردنگی می خوریم، می شود زد به چاک. اما از درون غیر ممکن است."
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
un roman à la fois fantasque, doux et poétique, qui parle d’amour, de ce temps entre l’enfance et l’adolescence, de Belleville et de travestis
On était tout ce qu’on avait au monde et c’était toujours ça de sauvé.
+ un vrai plaidoyer pour l’euthanasie !!
On était tout ce qu’on avait au monde et c’était toujours ça de sauvé.
+ un vrai plaidoyer pour l’euthanasie !!
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ça a quand même pas bien vieilli sur plein de choses mais l'écriture et les réflexions de Momo font un peu fondre le coeur.
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Published under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, Gary's best-selling 1975 tragicomic novel of an Arab youth's misadventures amongst the denizens of Paris garnered him an unprecedented second Prix Goncourt, a once-in-a-lifetime honor. With streetwise naïveté, Mohammed—or Momo—narrates his experiences in a clandestine orphanage together with "a bunch of kids who weren't necessary and hadn't managed to get abortioned on time," under the increasingly shaky care of Madame Rosa, an Auschwitz survivor and retired sex worker whose mounting struggles with the indignities of age make her "so sad you didn't even notice she was ugly." Ralph Manheim's brilliant 1977 translation captures Momo's revealing misconstructions and poignant tonal shifts in a feat akin to coaxing Huck Finn into speaking French. The spirit of tolerance cultivated among a chosen family of misfits, including a kind-eyed Algerian carpet merchant and a trans Senegalese sex worker and former boxing champion, gets its ultimate test when the boy's murderous pimp father Youssef shows up with a 10-year-old receipt for Mohammed, prompting Madame Rosa to claim she has accidentally raised him as Moise, a nice Jewish boy. Tackling matters of life and death with disarming and often hilarious irreverence, Gary's novel is a joy to read, even when it makes you cry.