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The Lover

By Marguerite Duras

By Marguerite Duras

By Marguerite Duras

By Marguerite Duras

By Marguerite Duras
Read by Kathleen Gati

By Marguerite Duras
Read by Kathleen Gati

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Sep 08, 1998 | ISBN 9780375700521

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Jul 06, 2011 | ISBN 9780307801203

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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.

    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.

    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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    About Marguerite Duras

    One of France’s most important literary figures, MARGUERITE DURAS is best known in the United States for her novel The Lover, and for her brilliant film script Hiroshima, Mon Amour. She is also the author of many other acclaimed novels (The Ravishing of Lol Stein) and screenplays (Détruire,… More about Marguerite Duras

    About Marguerite Duras

    One of France’s most important literary figures, MARGUERITE DURAS is best known in the United States for her novel The Lover, and for her brilliant film script Hiroshima, Mon Amour. She is also the author of many other acclaimed novels (The Ravishing of Lol Stein) and screenplays (Détruire,… More about Marguerite Duras

    About Marguerite Duras

    One of France’s most important literary figures, MARGUERITE DURAS is best known in the United States for her novel The Lover, and for her brilliant film script Hiroshima, Mon Amour. She is also the author of many other acclaimed novels (The Ravishing of Lol Stein) and screenplays (Détruire,… More about Marguerite Duras

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Romance | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Pantheon
    Sep 08, 1998 | 128 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375700521

    Category: Historical Romance | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Pantheon
    Jul 06, 2011 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9780307801203

    Category: Historical Romance | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Mar 21, 2023 | 221 Minutes | ISBN 9780593632581
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