Format: First paperback printing

Condition: Good plus, edge wear and corner bumps, small creasing at bottom corner, light nicks at spine, previous owners name on inside front cover, price sticker on rear cover.

Product dimensions: n/a

Publishing Info: The New Press, New York, 1992

Language: English

ISBN - 13: 9781565840430

 

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 feel of an intimate 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.

 

Duras' biography on Wikipedia