Marguerite Duras – The Lover
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Translated from the French by Barbara Bray
128pp
A sensational international bestseller, The Lover is disturbing, erotic, masterly. Here is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between the lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl’s family apart.
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Description
Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society. A sensational international bestseller, The Lover is disturbing, erotic, masterly. Here is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between the lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl’s family apart.
‘Very beautiful, highly intelligent, enjoyable and original.’ Sunday Times
‘A spectacular success.’ Edmund White
About the Author
Marguerite Duras was one of Europe’s most distinguished writers. The author of many novels and screenplays, she is perhaps best known outside France for her filmscript Hiroshima Mon Amour and her Prix Goncourt-winning novel The Lover, also filmed. Her other books include The War, Blue Eyes Black Hair, Summer Rain and The North China Lover. Born in Indochina in 1914, Marguerite Duras died in 1996.
About the Translator
Barbara Bray (1924–2010) was a translator of twentieth-century French literature into English. In 1953 she became a script editor for the BBC’s Third Programme, commissioning and translating European 20th-century avant-garde writing for the network. She was an early champion of Harold Pinter, Marguerite Duras and Samuel Beckett, and also translated the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Anouilh, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
