'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. The Lover Series 2 primary works 2 total works Book 1 The Lover by Marguerite Duras 3.73 49,673 Ratings 4,079 Reviews published 1984 254 editions Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietna Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras 3. For all who have admired Duras's previous work, here is an exciting and unexpected reading of her past - a work the French critics called a return to 'the Duras of the great books and the great days'. The North China Lover, which began as a screenplay for Jean-Jacques Annauds adaptation of her novel The Lover, tells the same story as the novel but in a very different style and tone. a French teenager at a school in Indo-China in the early 1930s, and the spoiled young son of a Chinese millionaire. Here are the humiliations and passions of the poverty-ridden world in which Duras grew up: the intense sexuality of the young women who were her friends and classmates, a group of adolescents impatient for the experiences of adulthood while still caught up in the conflicts of childhood. Gone are the romantic and nostalgic readings of the past.

occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collective fantasy follows three star-struck men driven to extraordinary acts by their devotion to. Initially written as notes toward a filmscript for The Lover, the book has the grainy, filmic qualities of a documentary. From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. An instant number-one bestseller in France, The North China Lover both shocks and entrances its readers. Far more daring and truthful than any book she has written before, it emphasizes the tough realities of her youth in Indochina and reveals much that her earlier works concealed. Hailed in France as 'an incomparable pleasure', Marguerite Duras's newest novel is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of her adolescence that have shaped her work.

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