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The Lover
The Lover
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April 1, 2020
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April 30, 2020
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Shelves: european, asian, read-in-2020, 60-before-60, 1001-books, historical-fiction, biographical-fiction, mental-health
Marguerite Duras' novella The Lover is the semi-autobiographical story of her childhood, growing up in Vietnam. Her parents were teachers, and her father died young. The mother stays in Vietnam with the children, where they live lives in poverty and struggle with her mental illness. She is remote, and inattentive to the children. To make things worse for Ms. Duras, her older brother steals everything they have to support his drug habit. At age 15, the girl becomes a lover to an older Chinese man ...more
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