La Vie Devant Soi

Émile Ajar ★★★★★

A.k.a The Life Before Us, it’s a book which made its author the only person who received the Prix Goncourt twice. The Goncourt Price was not supposed to be ever awarded to the same person twice - however, Ajar published this book under a pseudonym, so no one really knew that he was the real author, thus when the jury awarded the price to the author of this book, they didn’t know about Ajar’s previous price from 1958…