Let's Read The Lover by Marguerite Duras!

Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of postwar France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death, including The Lover. Set in prewar Indochina, The Lover is a haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on Duras's own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.