num_pages: 128
description: Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society.
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: Harper Perennial