North China Lover Author:Marguerite Duras An instant number-one best-seller in France, The North China Lover both shocks and entrances its readers. Initially written as notes toward a film script for The Lover, the book has the grainy, filmic qualities of a documentary. Far more daring and truthful than any book Duras has written before, The North China Lover emphasizes the realities of... more » her youth in Indochina and reveals much that her earlier works concealed.« less