num_pages: 128
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Lover
titlecomplete: The Lover
characters: Marguerite Duras
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, France, Historical Fiction, French Literature, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 52640
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: Perennial