

The Lover
Author: Marguerite Duras
Narrator: Kathleen Gati
Unabridged: 3 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 03/21/2023
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Synopsis
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.
This edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today.