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Far 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.
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The North China Lover, Marguerite Duras
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1993
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- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Marguerite Duras
- Uitgever
- New Press
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1993
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1565840437
- ISBN13
- 9781565840430
- Reeks
- Eerste editie
- 1991
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- L'Amant de la Chine du Nord
- Beoordeling
- 3,75 van 5
- Aantekening
- Far 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.