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Signed Ajar, this novel received the Goncourt Prize in 1975. It's a love story of a little Arab boy for a very old Jewish woman: Momo struggles against the six floors that Madame Rosa no longer wants to climb and against life because "it does not forgive" and because it is "not necessary to have reasons to be afraid." The little boy will help her hide in her "Jewish hole," she will not go to die in the hospital and will thus be able to benefit from the sacred right "of peoples to dispose of themselves" which is not respected by the Order of Physicians. He will keep her company until she dies and even beyond death.