Book, North China Lover, O[LS]

At the beginning of the 20th century, the region of Southeast Asia today divided between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was a French colony — Indochina. At that time, in that place, a white teenager, born into a poor and dysfunctional family, meets a rich, older Chinese man, beginning a relationship that is as intense as it is ambiguous, driven by passion and money, love and tragedy, at the same time forbidden. liberating and destructive. Towards the end of her life, Marguerite Duras revisits one of her masterpieces, The Lover, a narrative with strong autobiographical tones. The North China Lover is a novel that, with brutal honesty, reflects on youth and the desire for the gaze of maturity.