L' amant
By: Marguerite Duras.
Publisher: Editions de minuit
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 142
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.