Duras, Marguerite

The story of an affair between a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old French girl and her Chinese lover.

Presents the notebooks of author Marguerite Duras kept between 1943 and 1949. Includes early drafts of some of her works including "The Lover" and "The War." Describes Duras's youth in colonial Vietnam where her mother sold her to "the lover" and discusses her war experiences.