$25.46
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
8 September 1998
Summary
A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe 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 empi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375700521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375700528 |
| Author: | Marguerite Duras |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 1998 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 10mm |
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“Powerful, authentic, completely successful … perfect.”—The New York Times Book Review“An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl.”—Boston Herald “A vivid, lingering novel … a brilliant work of art.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
About The Author
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, dit-elle). Born in Saigon in 1914 and died in Paris in 1996.
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