The North China Lover
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Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Durass adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover this later novel written toward the end of her life emphasizes the tougher aspects of her youth in Indochina and possesses the intimate feel of a documentary. Both shocking and enthralling the story Duras tells is so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it . . . lingers like a strong perfume (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the French critics as a return to the Duras of the great books and the great days it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period in the authors life.
