The Lover
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An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France&apos;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&apos;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&apos;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&apos;s world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.


Publisher: Pantheon; 1st Pantheon paperback ed edition (July 6, 2011)
Publication date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
File size: 1127 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 129 pages