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The Lover by Marguerite Duras

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The Lover

By Marguerite Duras

By Marguerite Duras

By Marguerite Duras

By Marguerite Duras

Paperback $12.95

Sep 08, 1998 | 128 Pages

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Jul 06, 2011 | 128 Pages

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    About The Lover

    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.

    (With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)

    About The Lover

    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.


    From the Hardcover edition.

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    Also by Marguerite Duras

    The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities
    The Ravishing of Lol Stein
    See all books by Marguerite Duras

    About Marguerite Duras

    MARGUERITE DURAS is the author of many acclaimed novels and screenplays, including The Lover, The Ravishing of Lol Stein, and the film script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour. One of France’s most important literary figures, Duras died in Paris in 1996.

    About Marguerite Duras

    MARGUERITE DURAS is the author of many acclaimed novels and screenplays, including The Lover, The Ravishing of Lol Stein, and the film script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour. One of France’s most important literary figures, Duras died in Paris in 1996.

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Romance | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $12.95
    Published by Pantheon
    Sep 08, 1998 | 128 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375700521

    Category: Historical Romance | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Pantheon
    Jul 06, 2011 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9780307801203

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    “An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl.”
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