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1	Lover more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist A 15-year-old French school girl has an affair with the son of a wealthy Chinese business man. Doomed from the start, the lovers are pulled in opposite directions by racial, social, and political conflicts. This is a largely autobiographical novel of Duras, her family, and the political climate of 1930's Saigon. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The ravishing of Lol Stein more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist Jacques Hold narrates the story of a his love for Lol V. Stein. Reconstructing a story from imagination and from what he's been told by Lol's friend and his current lover, Tatiana, Lol had lost her fiance, Michael Richardson, to another woman. For a while, she appears to have lost her mind, but she recovers, gets married, and has children. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	L'Amant by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist Original French language edition of "L'amant." see all copies from $4.80! new only from $24.33! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Ourika more books like this by Madame De Duras, R Little (Editor) add to wishlist John Fowles translated this 19th-century book, which provided the seed for his own novel, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Based on a true story, Ourika's novel relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by and aristocratic French family during the French Revolution. see all copies from $3.72! new only from $7.79! \| first editions
5	Hiroshima Mon Amour more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist Jacket description/back: One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award. Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The War: A Memoir more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Professor Barbara Bray (Translator) add to wishlist One of France's greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II and of its eventual liberation by the Allies. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the liberation, this extraordinary diary by the author of The Lover is "a haunting portrait of a time and place" (New York Times). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Malady of death more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.14! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Woman to Woman more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Katharine A Jensen (Translator), Xaviere Gauthier add to wishlist In the summer of 1973, the journalist Xaviere Gauthier interviewed the writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras for an article in "Le Monde". The meeting began a productive friendship between the two women that included the recording of four more interviews. They spoke of writing, literature, criticism, film, madness, sex, desire, alienation, Marxism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The North China lover. more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist This novel is a retelling of the dramatic experiences of the author's adolescence that have shaped her life and work. It emphasizes the harsh realities of her youth in Indochina, revealing much that her earlier works concealed, from the humiliations of poverty to the sexual turmoil of adolescence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Practicalities more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Professor Barbara Bray (Translator) add to wishlist Essays transcribed from conversations Duras had with her friend Jérôme Beaujor. She ranges over thoughts about motherhood, alcohol, her past, and the writing life, as well as providing many short autobiographical anecdotes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.35! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	L'amant de la Chine du Nord by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist see all copies from $3.25! new only from $11.40!
12 view cover	Green Eyes more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Carol Barko (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.95! new only from $42.50! \| SVS
13	Sea Wall more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist A mesmerising, early novel by the author of the international bestseller The Lover, that explores the same terrains of Indochina and erotic obsession. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14 view cover	Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Linda Coverdale (Translator) add to wishlist Published for the first time in English, these World War II-era notebooks offer insights into one of the 20th century's most renowned literary figures. Here are the first drafts of her most famous works, the true stories behind "The Lover, The War," and several other classics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The sailor from Gibraltar more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist " The Sailor from Gibraltar", the fourth of Duras's 22 novels, was influenced by Hemingway and Steinbeck. Its conventional narrative is unlike her later experiments in nouvelle roman and stream of consciousness. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $10.54! \| first editions \| SVS
16	La Douleur more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist see all copies from $6.62! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Moderato cantabile more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. Fiction. Perhaps the most admired of all Marguerite Duras's novels, "Moderato Cantabile" is almost a twentieth-century Madame Bovary in its picture of the dissatisfied wife of a rich provincial industrialist, who forms an attachment to one of her husband's workmen. This is not the normal chronicle of ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $10.57! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Blue eyes black hair more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist Emotionally charged, sparsely written, and vicariously compelling, Marguerite Duras's novel centers on the desire of a young man for another man he has only glimpsed once, but with whom he falls desperately in love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.75! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Four Novels: The Square, Moderato Cantabile, 10:30 on a Summer Night, the Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Richard Seaver (Translator), Germaine Bree (Illustrator) add to wishlist Long acknowledged as one of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras has garnered worldwide praise for her work, from the acclaimed screenplay Hiroshima Mon Amour to the best-selling novel The Lover. In this volume of four short novels, Duras demonstrates her remarkable ability to create an emotional intensity and unity by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| SVS
20 view cover	Destroy, she said more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.75! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Moderato cantabile, suivi de "Moderato cantabile" et la presse française by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist see all copies from $2.74! new only from $14.98!
22 view cover	Yann Andrea Steiner: A Memoir more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray (Translator) add to wishlist Fifty years have passed since the young girl in the autobiographical The Lover discovered love with an older man. Now, Marguerite Duras has a new lover, Yann Andrea--a man 30 years her junior--who has lifted her from the depths of despair, illness and alcoholism. Embedded in these recollections is a stunning tale of forbidden love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Ravissement de Lol V Stein by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist see all copies from $3.21! new only from $5.50! \| first editions
24	La Vie Tranquille by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
25	Le Vice-consul more books like this by Marguerite Duras add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $22.77! \| SVS

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