by Marguerite Duras · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472233973
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«El amante de la China del Norte» is the novel by Marguerite Duras, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
Marguerite Duras rewrites here her novel The Lover (1984) and returns to colonial Saigon of the 1920s to narrate the relationship between a young French woman and a man of the Indochinese aristocracy. The plot incorporates characters such as Thanh, the orphan from the mountains of Siam, and unpublished details of family ties and the passion between the lovers.
Original title: L'Amant de la Chine du Nord. Published in 1991 in the Andanzas collection of Tusquets (no. 153); it is the second installment of the The Lover series.
Work for readers of romantic fiction and contemporary narrative with an interest in twentieth-century 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.
