The Lover
New York : Pantheon Books, [1997]
Format: Book
Edition: 1st Pantheon paperback ed.
Description: 117 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Subjects:
Teenage girls -- Indochina -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Indochina -- Fiction.
Indochina -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Indochina -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Indochina -- Fiction.
Indochina -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0375700528
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Duras | Wheatley (Shandon) | Fiction | In |
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English translation of: L'amant.