The lover
1st Pantheon paperback ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Bray, Barbara. - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Pantheon Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Description
*L'Amant* est une autofiction française (un roman en partie autobiographique) de Marguerite Duras publiée en 1984 aux éditions de Minuit. Il valut à son auteur le prix Goncourt la même année et le prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway (meilleur roman publié en anglais) en 1986.
First Sentence
One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.
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.
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