The Lover (Paperback)
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: Pantheon (Sep 8, 1998)
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This novels is set in foreign land –in Indochina - and has that wonderful quality of magical realism. When I think about this book I can perfectly imagine the lushness of the setting. What I love about it is that the physical atmosphere it conjures and the richness of the writing add to the sensuality of the relationships it describes.- Roxanne
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An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world. 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 the waning days of France's colonial empire.
This edition includes an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective -- that of a visitor to Vietnam today.
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world. 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 the waning days of France's colonial empire.
This edition includes an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective -- that of a visitor to Vietnam today.