by Lucien Bodard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246008385
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«La Duchesse» is the novel by Lucien Bodard, published by Grasset in paperback in 1979 (414 pages, in French).
The narrative is set in Southeast Asia at the beginning of the 20th century, where a French military expedition advances toward the confines of China. Between adventure, love and diplomacy, the work combines a chronicle of cruelty and sensuality with a hard look at Western colonialism.
For readers of historical and adventure novels, interested in European colonialism in Asia and with a command of French for the original edition.
Lucien Bodard was a Chinese-born French reporter, and writer on events in East and Southeast Asia, such as the Indochinese nations becoming independent from France, and the Vietnam War.
