The Impudent Ones by Marguerite Duras instant download

The Impudent Ones by Marguerite Duras instant download

Published for the first time in English, the debut novel of Marguerite Duras—renowned author of The Lover and The War—is the story of a family's moral reckoning and a daughter's fall from grace Marguerite Duras rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover (L'Amant), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in English, has been translated into forty-three languages, and was adapted into a canonical film in 1992. While almost all of Duras's novels have been translated into English, her debut The Impudent Ones(Les Impudents) has been a glaring exception—until now. Fans of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras's classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of postwar...