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The Lover

by Marguerite Duras
Kathleen Gati
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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.
Set 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.
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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    March 21, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593632598
      • File size: 105753 KB
      • Duration: 03:40:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kathleen Gati's sweet voice and precise delivery movingly evoke the unnamed French girl who, in this most famous of Marguerite Duras's novels, describes her clandestine love affair with an older Chinese man in 1950s Indochina (now Vietnam). Winner of the 1984 Prix Goncourt, the brief tale explores class identity, passion, racism, and self-reliance in spare yet descriptive prose. Gati speaks in a lower pitch with crystalline pronunciation that emphasizes the ends of words. Both choices add to the story's tension as she conjures a girl becoming a woman who shares a long-held secret--a secret whose significance she hasn't quite resolved. Writer Maxine Hong Kingston's new introduction to this edition, also read by Gati, offers interesting background information and context. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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