Historical novel set around ENGLAND (Birmingham)
The Lover
Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): pre WW2
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.
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