num_pages: 123
description: An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world. 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 the waning days of France's colonial empire.This edition includes an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective -- that of a visitor to Vietnam today.
language: English
title: The Lover
titlecomplete: The Lover
characters: Marguerite Duras
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 52657
places: Southeast Asia, Vietnam
series: The Lover
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prix Goncourt, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Prose for Barbara Bray, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: Barbara Bray
publisher: Flamingo Books/HarperCollins Publishers