The North China Lover

von Marguerite Duras

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

For fans of Duras's enduring bestseller The Lover, an evocative and intimate exploration of the drama and power of adolescence, in a remarkable blend of fiction and memoirFar more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover, this later novel, written toward the end of her life, emphasizes the tougher aspects of her youth in Indochina and possesses the intimate feel of a documentary.Both shocking and enthralling, the story Duras tells is "so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it . . . lingers like a strong perfume" (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the French critics as a return to "the Duras of the great books and the great days," it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period in the author's life.

• Themen: Belletristik Biografischer Roman / Autobiografischer Roman
• ISBN: 9781565840430
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2008
• Größe: 208 x 139 mm
• Verlag: New Press
• Übersetzung: Leigh Hafrey