by Marguerite Duras · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472232150
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«El amante» is the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
In French Indochina in the 1930s, a fifteen-year-old French girl begins a secret romance with a wealthy twenty-six-year-old Chinese merchant. The relationship, marked by desire and by differences of race and class, intertwines with the memory of a broken family and the young woman's awakening to maturity.
It belongs to the Andanzas collection (number 15), with a translation by Ana María Moix, and received the Prix Goncourt in 1984.
For readers of literary fiction and romantic fiction, especially those seeking a contemporary classic of French literature.
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
