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Book · 1984 · Fiction

The Lover

Marguerite Duras
Pantheon Books (Penguin Random House) · 117 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score

Crossing the Mekong by ferry in 1929, a French girl of fifteen meets the Chinese man who becomes her lover. Duras writes it in fragments that refuse both romance and pity.

Genre
Autobiographical fiction
Medium
Novel
Subject
Romantic relationshipsFalling in love
Setting
Vietnam
Time
1984

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