From Our Editors
Set in the twilight of colonial French Indochina, this book
presents the haunting story of an adolescent French girl's first
love affair - one with the son of a Chinese millionaire. Haunting
and ravishing, it asks the question: can we ever truly fall in love
and hope to someday leave with no regrets? This reissue of
Marguerite Duras' beautiful novel The
Lover now also includes a new introduction by
Maxine Hong Kingston, which holds the book up to
the scrutiny of a traveller in present-day Vietnam.
From the Publisher
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Marguerite Duras is the author of many novels and screenplays,
including the film script for Hiroshima, Mon
Amour. One of France''s most important literary figures,
Duras died in Paris in 1996.
From the Hardcover edition.
Format: Trade Paperback
Published: September 8, 1998
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10: 0375700528
ISBN - 13: 9780375700521
