by Marguerite Duras · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447300075
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«El amante de la China del Norte» is the autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published by RBA in hardback, in Spanish.
The action takes place in interwar Indochina, where a French teenager and a Chinese man live a romance marked by desire and social differences. Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon and the last years of the French colonial empire with sober, luminous prose.
Translation by Beatriz de Moura. It is the second title in the «The Lover» series and part of the «Narrativa actual» collection, no. 7.
For readers of literary and romantic fiction, interested 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.
