An edition of El Amante/The Lover (1984)

The lover

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Cover of: The lover by Marguerite Duras, Marguerite Duras
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An edition of El Amante/The Lover (1984)

The lover

1st American ed.

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

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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English, French
Pages
117

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Subjects

Liebesbeziehung, Franzo sin, Chinesen, Französin, 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, Miscegenation, Fiction, general, Chinese fiction, Interethnic romance, Nineteen twenties, Adolescentes, Romans, nouvelles, Roman chinois, Années vingt (Vingtième siècle), Chinese, Belletristische Darstellung

Places

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Viêt-nam, Ho Chi Minh City, Chinesen

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Der Liebhaber
Der Liebhaber
2004, Süddt. Zeitung GmbH
in German
Cover of: The lover
The lover
1992, HarperPerennial, Perennial
Paperback in English - 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Cover of: Der Liebhaber
Der Liebhaber
1990-01-01, Volk und Welt Berlin
Cover of: The lover
The lover
1986, Perennial Library
in English
Cover of: The lover
The lover
1985, Pantheon Books
in English and French - 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

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2863405M
ISBN 10
0394545885
LCCN
84026321
OCLC/WorldCat
11497818
LibraryThing
28322
Goodreads
1023617

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL159382W

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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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