LOVER – A novel by Marguerite Duras.

Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director, born in French Indochina on April 4, 1914. Her father was a school principal and her mother was a teacher. After her father’s death, her family had moved to Sadek, where the mother dies during a flood. She is sent to boarding school in Saigon, where she falls in love with a rich young Chinese. Leprosy, jungle, colonial society and nature are the indelible traces of her experience in Indochina, those that will emerge in her novels. To study law, mathematics and political science, he moved to France, never stopping to think Indochina, because the age of eight to seventeen, she saw the sun set among paddy fields, because she hates the mountain that anguish, hiding the sunsets. She dies at 81 for throat cancer. The last years of her life passes closed them at home. The only friend to stay close to stir up her last words: “It’s hard to die, at some point you realize that the things in life end. That’s all.” She is waiting for you in the cemetery of Montparnasse, where she is buried.

The lover https://www.amazon.it/Lover-Harper-Perennial-Modern-Classics-ebook/dp/B0098BZXCW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478255364&sr=1-1&keywords=The+lovers+-+Marguerite+Duras among the currently most widely read books in Portugal, is a novel of the French writer Marguerite Duras, a book that tells the autobiographical story of the writer, in the period in which she lived (with mother and siblings, French Indochina). The story ends when the mother of the protagonist decides to leave Vietnam for France, bringing their children with them. The story of the meeting between Marguerite and the son of a wealthy Chinese. “But then one had told them. He told her he was like before, that he still loved her, that he could never stop loving her, that he would love her to death.” The story is that of a forbidden love for two reasons: the young age of girl and existing conventions (the difference of race and that of social class). Their relationship is opposed by the father of the young, but used by her family to find relief from poverty. The love story – told with bare styling and ample digressions – is intertwined with the vicissitudes of life: hatred for his older brother, conflictual relationship with his mother and latent lesbianism.