An edition of L'Amant (1984)

The lover

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An edition of L'Amant (1984)

The lover

1st American ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 6 Ratings
  • 122 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

The story of an affair between a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old French girl and her Chinese lover.

Publish Date
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
117

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Subjects
Large type books, Fiction, romance, historical, Young women, fiction, China, fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Teenage girls, Fiction, Man-woman relationships

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Cover of: The lover
The lover
1986, Perennial Library
in English
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Cover of: The lover
The lover
1985, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st American ed.
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Edition Notes

Translation of: L'amant.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.912
Library of Congress
PQ2607.U8245 A62613 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
117 p. ;
Number of pages
117

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2863405M
Internet Archive
lover00durarich
ISBN 10
0394545885
LCCN
84026321
OCLC/WorldCat
11497818
Library Thing
28322
Goodreads
1023617

First Sentence

"One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me."

Work Description

L'Amant est une autofiction française (un roman en partie autobiographique) de Marguerite Duras publiée en 1984 aux éditions de Minuit. Il valut à son auteur le prix Goncourt la même année et le prix Ritz-Paris-Hemingway (meilleur roman publié en anglais) en 1986.

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