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The Lover (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Marguerite Duras; Barbara Bray is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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“Powerful, authentic, completely successful... perfect.” - The New York Times Book ReviewSet 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.
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Marguerite Duras; Barbara Bray
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers UK
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780007205004
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (106 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- L'Amant (2011)
- L'Amant (1984)
- El Amante/The Lover (1985)
- The Lover (1997)
- The Lover (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2010)
- The Lover (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (2006)
- The Lover (2011)
- The Lover (1984)
- El Amante/The Lover (1989)
- Der Liebhaber (1987)
- Der Liebhaber. (1991)
- Der Liebhaber. (1989)
- Der Liebhaber. (2011)
- Der Liebhaber (1986)
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