A review by kirsten0929
The Lover by Marguerite Duras

4.0

[1985 - translation] Love her writing. Unusual use of punctuation makes for interesting flow (why use a period when a comma will do?). I'm not well versed on the history or geography of French Indochina so I didn't always follow the story as it moved between time and place but it didn't matter. For me the beauty was in her descriptions of the people, places and relationships. This story could have been creepy, given the subject matter, but the way she wrote it, it wasn't.