The lover
By: Marguerite Duras ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray ; introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Contributors: Bray, Barbara.
Edition: 1st Pantheon paperback ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
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."--BOOK JACKET.