Thalia Book Club The Lover, Marguerite Duras
Thalia Book Club The Lover, Marguerite Duras
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Thalia Book Club: The Lover

Author: Marguerite Duras

Narrator: Catherine Lacey, Akhil Sharma, Francoise Mouly, Kate Zambreno, Kathleen Chalfant

Unabridged: 1 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Symphony Space

Published: 04/14/2015

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Catherine Lacey (Nobody Is Ever Missing), Akhil Sharma (Family Life), Francoise Mouly (art editor at The New Yorker), and Kate Zambreno (Heroines, Green Girl) discuss the acclaimed novel in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Marguerite Duras’ (Hiroshima Mon Amour) haunting, luminous book tells of the tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover in pre-war Indochina. With a reading by Kathleen Chalfant (The Affair, Angels in America on Broadway).

Author Bio

Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) is the internationally known author of the Prix Goncourt-winning novel The Lover, as well as The War, The North China Lover, Moderato Cantabile, and the screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour, India Song, and other works.

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