A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances’ coveted Prix Goncourt, ‘The Lover’ is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl’s family apart.Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society.A sensational international bestseller, 'The Lover' is disturbing, erotic, masterly and simply unforgettable.
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Marguerite Duras. The Lover
MARGUERITE DURAS. The Lover. Translated by Barbara Bray
Dedication
Contents
The Lover
P.S. Ideas, Insights & Features … About the Author
About the Book
Read On
About the Author. Living without Restraint: from Saigon to St Germain
LIFE at a Glance
About the Book. The Plain of the Birds
Read On. Have You Read?
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About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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For Bruno Nuytten
Title Page
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Between drivers and employers there are still sliding panels. There are still tip-up seats. A car’s still as big as a bedroom.
Inside the limousine there’s a very elegant man looking at me. He’s not a white man. He’s wearing European clothes – the light tussore suit of the Saigon bankers. He’s looking at me. I’m used to people looking at me. People do look at white women in the colonies; and at twelve-year-old white girls. For the past three years white men, too, have been looking at me in the streets, and my mother’s men friends have been kindly asking me to have tea with them while their wives are out playing tennis at the Sporting Club.
