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North China Lover: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights
North China Lover: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights | Marguerite Duras
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Hailed in France as "an incomparable pleasure, " Marguerite Duras's newest novel is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of her adolescence that have shaped her work. For more daring and truthful now than any book she has written before, it emphasizes the realities of her youth in Indochina and reveals much that her earlier works concealed.
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The North China Lover | Marguerite Duras
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Mehso-so

first 87 pages are like nabokov‘s screenplay of Lolita. a salacious, pulp-y rendition of the original. the child running across the street and kissing the limousine window is lo pulling the lipstick tube out of her bikini waistband.

after the child‘s dance with helene lagonelle, there‘s nothing more. 150 pages of incessant laughing and crying.

3 stars