num_pages: 117
description: Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man.
language: English
title: The Lover
titlecomplete: The Lover
characters: Marguerite Duras
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 52631
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: Pantheon Books