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Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France’s colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.
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The Lover, Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray
- Language
- Released
- 1986
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Lover
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray
- Publisher
- Perennial library
- Released
- 1986
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 117
- ISBN10
- 0060970405
- ISBN13
- 9780060970406
- Series
- Tags
- Contemporary Fiction, France, Military Fiction, French Literature, Asia, Adapted for Film, China, Jewish Literature, Israel, Autobiographical Novels, Lovers, Israeli Literature, Indochina, Goncourt Prize, Hebrew Literature
- First published
- 1984
- Original title
- L'Amant
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France’s colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.