It was bold writing about a truth not often spoken of – very young girls and much older men in financially expedient relationships. Her mother is complicit in this by ‘allowing’ it because she benefits financially from this arrangement whilst hypocritically berating, and at times, even beating her daughter for it.ĭuras writes very candidly about the emotional detachment and of how she was void of any shame throughout this tryst. The protagonist takes on a lover at the age of fifteen and a half, a man almost twice her age, Chinese and wealthy. It did not, however, exempt them from the poverty faced by her mother, a school headmistress, who has made poor investment choices that leave her family near destitute and having to raise her family in Saigon, with not much hope of a better life back in France. Being white though afforded her and her family certain privileges, like riding in the front of the bus, and being allowed in certain restaurants. Given when it was written, it was a very wildlife for a poor French girl growing up in poverty in Saigon. They are raised by her single mother after the death of her father. It is during the French occupation of then Indo-Chine, what would become Vietnam.
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In brief, The Lover is about a young French girl growing up in Saigon with her brothers in the 1920s.
#THE LOVER DURAS FRENCH NAME MOVIE#
I remember seeing the movie when I was fifteen – the same age as she was in the book – and thinking: How very shocking and scandalous! Even now I still admit that she was very rebellious at such a young age, and for such a time. This was more of an assigned reading on a writing class I am taking. As if my reading ambitions were already not lofty enough, along with #reading SA, #reading Africa, now there is this goal.