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The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Marguerite Duras

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Jun 30, 2020 Karen rated it liked it

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I can't say that I read Duras for her stories, I read Duras for her haunting sentences. It's a love story, between five people, and an incident that will never leave the five people alone, even ten years later. ...more

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