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The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated into 43 languages and was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. It was adapted to film in 1992 as The Lover.
Jan 1, 2001 · 57,452 ratings5,131 reviews. Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man.
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Sep 8, 1998 · by Marguerite Duras (Author) 4.1 1,745 ratings. See all formats and editions. A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe since its first publication in 1984.
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Aug 1, 2023 · The Lover is a modernist memoir of a young girl's sexual awakening in colonial Vietnam. It explores the themes of crossing, transgression, shame, and escape through the lens of the girl's relationship with her Chinese lover and her mother.
Nov 21, 2017 · Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It. By Parul Sehgal. Nov. 21, 2017. Share full article. Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times. Name a current literary trend,...
About The Lover. A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe 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 ...
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...
