The North China Lover: A Novel
by Marguerite Duras
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Author: Marguerite DurasTranslator: Leigh Hafrey
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 1565840437
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: New Press, The
Summary of The North China Lover: A Novel
An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras's most important books.Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover, this later novel, written toward the end of her life, emphasizes the tougher aspects of her youth in Indochina and possesses the intimate feel of a documentary. Both shocking and enthralling, the story Duras tells is "so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it...lingers like a strong perfume" (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the French critics as a return to "the Duras of the great books and the great days," it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period in the author's life.
Hailed in France as "an incomparable pleasure," Marguerite Duras's 1991 novel is a spare, beautiful retelling of the dramatic experiences of her own adolescence. More daring and truthful than any book she wrote previously -- including The Lover, it emphasizes the realities of her youth in Indochina and reveals much that her earlier works concealed.
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