The Lover
Marguerite Duras
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. 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. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today. (With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Marguerite DurasPublisher: Pantheon BooksPublished: 09/08/1998ISBN: 9780375700521Pages: 128Weight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.44d
Book Title
The Lover
ISBN
9780375700521
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. 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. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today. (With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 09/08/1998
ISBN: 9780375700521
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.44d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 09/08/1998
ISBN: 9780375700521
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.44d
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. 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. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today. (With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 09/08/1998
ISBN: 9780375700521
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.44d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Marguerite Duras
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 09/08/1998
ISBN: 9780375700521
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.44d