false <![CDATA[The Lover]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255639935m/275.jpg 275 47 An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, <i>The Lover</i> has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of <i>Marguerite Duras's</i> 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. 1009849 book 1376 The Lover total:3070|5:986|4:1052|3:723|2:252|1:57| 3070 11868 4027 277 5 28 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 14:27:44 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 23:50:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 5 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 16:02:20 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 07:10:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Feb 15 07:21:18 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 14 21:20:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 4 true false Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 24 12:31:11 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 15 18:44:36 -0700 2008 finally finished Marguerite Duras' "The Lover." Why did it take me this long to read a 117-page novel? (I posted it on my currently-reading shelf on Feb. 25th). [HINT: It is not because I didn't want it to end.]

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(1) The episode "I told you about" - when older brother fells all the woods and gambles away the profits in one night - is somehow also Faulkner. Completely Duras, obviously, but also Ab...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat May 24 10:14:20 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 10:38:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 11:59:16 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 14:48:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 14:37:37 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 15:12:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Oct 24 14:27:25 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 14:31:45 -0700 2007
Marguerite Duras's prose is so powerful that I have full paragraphs memorized. Each s...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 16 10:32:52 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 10:36:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 11:20:58 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 12:54:57 -0700 2008 1
Update: Having finished the book, what I admire most about it is Duras' combination of verge-of-lurid subject matter with an utterly deadpan tone of voice. The latter makes the former possible,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1985 Thu Jul 05 15:38:58 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 15:38:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 24 16:23:44 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 16:24:04 -0800 2008 percintaan seorang gadis remaja berkebangsaan Eropa dengan seorang
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Our main (and pov) character is a 15-year-old girl who I don't think ever reveals her name. In fact, none of the primary...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 20 21:20:59 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 21:21:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 19:48:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:54:45 -0800 2008 Melissa Buzzeo's book What Began Us at Myopic the other day. It's published by Leon Works, who put out one of my favorite books of late, and so I figured I'd give it a shot. Buzzeo opens up with a quote from The Lover, a book I've been meaning to read for ages, so I put her down and re...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Thu Mar 06 17:07:05 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 17:11:57 -0800 2008 There was an excellent film version don...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 12:59:41 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 13:18:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Tue Jan 29 11:27:34 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 11:32:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=275