All Life Ahead

For the novel "All Life Ahead", the unknown writer Émile Ajar was awarded the highest literary prize in France, given only once in a lifetime - the Prix Goncourt. Much later it was revealed that there was no Ajar: this pseudonym was yet another literary mask of the great mystifier Romain Gary.
Momo, Mohammed - an Arab boy who was left without a mother and thrown onto the streets of a poor neighborhood in Paris. Madame Rosa - an old Jewish woman who has no one and almost nothing left in her life. They seem doomed to die - at least, spiritually. But no: the power of love does the incredible...
The novel that exploded French literature brought Gary-Ajar his second Prix Goncourt - a unique case in history.