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The Lover

by Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barbara Bray
₱539.55
The Lover - Thryft
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Poignant colonial romance; evocatively spare prose.

If you're taken by stories of forbidden love framed by the complexities of history, "The Lover" is a captivating journey. Duras's masterful, succinct writing will immerse you in the atmosphere of colonial Vietnam, making the passionate and fateful relationship between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover profoundly resonate with you. It's a brief but striking exploration of desire and despair.

  • Prix Goncourt (1984)
  • PEN Translation Prize for Prose for Barbara Bray (1986)
  • Prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway (1986)
  • Scott Moncrieff Prize for Barbara Bray (1986)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barbara Bray
₱539.55
ISBN: 9780375700521
Authors: Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barbara Bray
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date of Publication: 1998-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, French Literature, Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.73
(rated by 55255 readers)

Description

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. 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.
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Poignant colonial romance; evocatively spare prose.

If you're taken by stories of forbidden love framed by the complexities of history, "The Lover" is a captivating journey. Duras's masterful, succinct writing will immerse you in the atmosphere of colonial Vietnam, making the passionate and fateful relationship between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover profoundly resonate with you. It's a brief but striking exploration of desire and despair.

  • Prix Goncourt (1984)
  • PEN Translation Prize for Prose for Barbara Bray (1986)
  • Prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway (1986)
  • Scott Moncrieff Prize for Barbara Bray (1986)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.