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  The Lover (Paperback)(English / French) By (author) Marguerite Duras, Translated by Professor Barbara Bray, Introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston

  

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  Short Description for The LoverBack in print in paperback, "an exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl" ("Boston Herald"). 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.
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  • Publisher: Pantheon Books
  • Published: 01 October 1998
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780375700521 ISBN 10: 0375700528
  • Sales rank: 12,709

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Full description for The Lover

• An international bestseller 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 pre-war Indochina of Marguerite Duras' 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.