Product Description

This erotic novel won the Prix Goncourt award. Set in 1930s Saigon, this is the portrayal of an incandescent relationship between a young French girl and the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23770 in Books
• Published on: 1994-12-05
• Original language: French
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

One of the best books I've ever read
I chanced across this book when waiting for some female friends who went to see <> at the cinema. I finished book just as the film finished. I'm glad I read this book rather than saw that film.

A flow of consciousness embedded in romantic fatalism. Very feminine writing. It took me on a journey of youthful experimentation, of not quite knowing but knowing, of cultural conflicts, of the exotic Indo-China in that colonial era of a faded dusty yellowness.

Strongly recommended to all those who enjoy the writing of V Nabokov.

pure poetry
I have read this book more than once and become transported every time to the exotic Indochina and the searing romance between the young girl and the chinese man of the title. Even more beguiling than this are the tales of festering colonialism as the girl rages at her brother and mother for making her endure the poverty and shame of being both white and poor. This is a very complex book which is easy to read thanks to the style of ms Duras' writing, that of flowing poetry.

A emotional, erotic, endless love story
Interesting and grasping. It leaves you hanging on. In just over 100 pages you will experience every possible emotion. Strongly recommended!