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Gaia Chandler, M.A. | Certified Educator. On their first afternoon together, the narrator tells the man, whom she often describes as “my lover” or “the lover,” that she will soon leave her...
May 3, 2015 · In the novel, the narrator, who effortlessly flicks between the first and third person, has a strained relationship with her mother, who wants her daughter to do well at school, get an education and study mathematics.
Apr 27, 2015 · The book’s narrator is a young woman in flux. She’s outgrown childhood and has poured her body into oversize markers of adulthood; the conclusion of the ferry ride signals the start of her sexual awakening, as she first glimpses the chauffeured black limousine that belongs to the twenty-seven-year-old Chinese businessman, the novel’s ...
Feb 7, 2019 · Marguerite and the younger brother did love each other and this occurs, too, with the narrator and the younger brother of the novel. Also, as in the novel, Marguerite began an affair with a Chinese lover, who was aged 27 when she was fifteen-and-a-half.
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The lover, a wealthy and influential Chinese man living in the colonized city, notices the narrator on the ferry and approaches her. They talk briefly before leaving in his car. He begins driving her from her boarding school to high school each day, until eventually they return to his house.
The man is nervous because the narrator is young and sexually inexperienced, but shortly after, he makes love to her. For the narrator, time seems to be running backward, as if her first...
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The Lover is a 1984 novel by Marguerite Duras about an affair between an adolescent French girl and a young Chinese man in Saigon in the 1920s. The narrator, a fifteen-year-old French girl from...
