The Lover by Marguerite Duras

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

A girl of fifteen and a half stands on a ferry crossing the Mekong wearing a man's fedora and gold shoes. A Chinese man in a limousine offers her a lift, and the affair that follows lasts a year and a half.

Duras wrote it at seventy about her own adolescence in French Indochina, and the prose moves without warning between first and third person, between 1929 and the present. It is about desire, colonial money, an unbearable family, and the fact that neither of them could have kept the other. Under a hundred and twenty pages.

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, and one of the most admired short novels in French.

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