Promise at Dawn

In this book, Romain Gary is presented as the author of one of the most captivating literary biographies, "Promise at Dawn".

The novel, published in 1960, remains the most famous work of the writer to this day.

This novel is a confession of love to a mother; it is about how "I" relates to "the other," child and adult, intended and achieved, promised and occurred.

Romain Gary's book "Promise at Dawn" is an autobiography that is part humorous, part romantic, part philosophical. It is about the relationship between a son and a mother, about all-consuming blind maternal love, about a mother's attempts to fulfill her broken dreams through her son, about the complexity of mutual understanding and the impossibility of easily letting go of a loved one.