marguerite duras – Cannonball Read 17

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The Lover by Marguerite Duras

March 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Somehow, this incredible little novella flew completely under my radar until last year. Luckily, the folks over at Lit Hub are absolutely obsessed, and I was unable to remain in the dark for much longer. When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more …exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. While not entirely an “autobiography”, Duras tells the tale of a very young girl who grew up in an unstable household in French-colonized […]

Short novels Final!

December 12, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

God on the Rocks – 3/5 Stars https://www.amazon.com/God-Rocks-Jane-Gardam/dp/1933372761/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512942968&sr=8-1&keywords=god+on+the+rocks Jane Gardam is most well known in contemporary circles for her novel Old Filth, which is a kind of running joke on “Failed in London, Try Hong Kong” and so that novel has a final moments of the British Empire in closing feel to it. This novel is an earlier one, from 1978, and takes places during the war. It has a 1970s politics feel to it alongside the feel of the time period in which it’s set. […]

The story of my life doesn’t exist.

March 5, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This novel is a strange little reminiscence that takes place in multiple latitudes, timelines, and consciousnesses. It’s the story of a young French girl who lives in Indochina in the 1930s and 1940s who when she is a teen has a love affair with an older Chinese businessman. It’s strange because since the narrator and the author are an older women describing her sexual awakening, part of me is definitely like “Get it, girl” and because it involves a cross-racial relationship where the gross racism […]

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