Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man.
The Lover
Publication Date: September 08, 1998
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages: 117
Format: Paperback
Authors: Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barbara Bray