The Lover
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Marguerite Duras
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.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.Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.
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Author
Marguerite Duras
Pages
128
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2011-07-06
ISBN
0307801209 9780307801203
Ratings
Google: 3.5
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"A beautiful novel about a young French woman recalling her bittersweet love affair from her youth. "
Annie Stafford
"This was not my favorite of the authors work (only because her other work is amazing!), but as she’s been proving, she’s great at feminist retellings of classic stories. This is a great teaser to the full length novels she’s produced, and I highly recommend her work in any form!"
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Allie Peduto