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Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.
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Marguerite Duras — nom de plume de Marguerite Donnadieu — est une écrivaine, dramaturge, scénariste et réalisatrice française, née le 4 avril 1914 à Gia Định, près de Saïgon, alors en Indochine française, et morte le 3 mars 1996 à Paris. Par la diversité et la modernité de son œuvre, qui renouvelle le genre romanesque et bouscule les conventions théâtrales et cinématographiques, elle est une figure majeure de la littérature de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. ---------- Marguerite Duras — pen name of Marguerite Donnadieu — was a French writer, playwright, screenwriter, and director, born on April 4, 1914, in Gia Định, near Saigon, then in French Indochina, and died on March 3, 1996, in Paris
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