
Lover (special Edition)
About This Novel
Duras's masterpiece, about a girl's growth and transformation, love and writing, Wang Daoqian's classic translation. The classic novel that influenced Wang Xiaobo's life, one of the top ten Goncourt Prize novels of the century selected by "Le Figaro Magazine", a cover created by the emerging painter Cici Suen, and the original work of the classic film "The Lover", starring Tony Leung Ka Fai as the male protagonist. "The Lover" is an autobiographical work. It is based on the life of French colonists in Vietnam. It describes the deep and hopeless love between a poor French girl and a wealthy Chinese young master. The writing touches on some of the most fundamental and secret qualities of human nature, which is thought-provoking. The emotional power that surges from beginning to end in the novel even surpasses the superb writing skills and is extremely contagious. "The Lover" won France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt.
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Official(1)Scraped 20d ago
Marguerite Duras Lover Ebook Revisited
I used to read Duras' Lover in paper form, but now I'm re-reading it in e-book. Beautiful and peaceful.
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Official(1)Scraped 20d ago
Marguerite Duras Lover Ebook Revisited
I used to read Duras' Lover in paper form, but now I'm re-reading it in e-book. Beautiful and peaceful.
