The Lover

　　二十年代，一個年輕的法國少女在湄公河上邂逅了一名中國男子，男的被她的美貌所吸引，但少女表示只喜歡他的金錢，兩人發展成一對異國戀人，但由於雙方的家庭反對繼續往來，少女被逼返回祖國升學，她在茫茫大海上，面對翻滾的海浪，頓然醒悟自己已墮入愛河，但已後悔莫及。

A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, The Lover has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe since its first publication in 1984.

Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France’s colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.

This edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen that looks back at Duras’s iconic work, winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, as it approaches its fortieth anniversary in print.

One of France’s most important literary figures, MARGUERITE DURAS is best known in the United States for her novel The Lover, and for her brilliant film script Hiroshima, Mon Amour. She is also the author of many other acclaimed novels (The Ravishing of Lol Stein) and screenplays (Détruire, dit-elle). Born in Saigon in 1914 and died in Paris in 1996.