The Lover - Hardcover
Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this is the tale of a relationship between two outcasts - an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover - during the waning days of the colonial period. Other work by the author includes "Blue Eyes, Black Hair", "The Sea Wall", and "La Doleur".
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"An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl."
--"Boston Herald"
"A vivd, lingering novel...a brilliant work of art."
--Cleveland "Plain Dealer"
"Powerful, authentic, completely successful . . . perfect."
--The New York Times Book Review "An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl."
--Boston Herald
"A vivid, lingering novel . . . a brilliant work of art."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
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--"Boston Herald"
"A vivd, lingering novel...a brilliant work of art."
--Cleveland "Plain Dealer"
"Powerful, authentic, completely successful . . . perfect."
--The New York Times Book Review "An exquisite jewel of a novel, as multifaceted as a diamond, as seamless and polished as a pearl."
--Boston Herald
"A vivid, lingering novel . . . a brilliant work of art."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
'Saigon, 1930s': a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society.
A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances’ coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is disturbing, erotic, masterly. Here is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between the lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl’s family apart.
'The Lover' has been made into a major film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Jane March and Tony Leung. An alternative version of the events described in the novel is given in Marguerite Duras’s 'The North China Lover', also published by Flamingo.
“Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written”
SPECTATOR
“Very beautiful, highly intelligent, enjoyable and original”
SUNDAY TIMES
“Perfect, a 'tour de force' ... accessible in the way Thomas Mann’s 'Death in Venice' or D.M. Thomas’s 'The White Hotel' are accessible ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death.”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0002229463
- ISBN 13 9780002229463
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages124
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