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The Lover
Contributor(s): Duras, Marguerite (Author)
ISBN: 0375700528     ISBN-13: 9780375700521
Publisher: Pantheon Books
OUR PRICE:   $13.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1998
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Annotation: Back 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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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Romance - Historical - General
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99166709
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.23" W x 8.03" (0.32 lbs) 128 pages
 
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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.)