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The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
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Publisher's summary

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.

©1984 Marguerite Duras (P)2023 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

"Powerful, authentic, completely successful . . . perfect."The New York Times Book Review

“An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl.”—Boston Herald

“A vivid, lingering novel . . . a brilliant work of art.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Found it a bit creepy. Visited the house in Vietnam and so I wanted to read the book.

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