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The Lover

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 The Lover


基本信息出版社:HarperPerennial
页码:144 页
出版日期:2008年05月
ISBN:0007268297
条形码:9780007268290
版本:(Reissue)
装帧:平装
正文语种:英语
丛书名:The Perennial Collection
外文书名:情人

内容简介 A sensational international bestseller, and winner of France's coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Saigon, 1930s: a poor young French girl meets the elegant son of a wealthy Chinese family. Soon they are lovers, locked into a private world of passion and intensity that defies all the conventions of their society. A sensational international bestseller, 'The Lover' is disturbing, erotic, masterly. Here is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between the lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart.
媒体推荐 'Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written.' Spectator 'Very beautiful, highly intelligent, enjoyable and original.' Sunday Times 'Perfect, a 'tour de force'!accessible in the way Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' or D.M. Thomas's 'The White Hotel' are accessible!dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death.' New York Times Book Review 'A spectacular success.' Edmund White
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