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treehouselibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Incest, Sexual assault, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Colonisation, Violence, War, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, Death, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence
Minor: Blood, Addiction, and Alcohol
fatfrog's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Suicide, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Mental illness and Death
Minor: Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Body horror
raspberryprada's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content
Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Xenophobia, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Infidelity
Minor: Colonisation and Miscarriage
whysoserious's review against another edition
2.25
Minor: Child abuse and Death
baybod's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Death
romanebzt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia
ladymirtazapine's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide, and War
aliannavelezzzz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Sexual content
morebedsidebooks's review against another edition
4.0
Composed of wandering recollections congregating around the affair straddling multiple boundaries of a French teenager whose family was persuaded to settle in Cochinchine (now Southern Vietnam) but, finds no fortune and an older affluent Chinese heir in 1929, to paraphrase: an imaginative memory of time rendered into life. It’s also a novella which is about land and people of elsewhere who inhabited it, childhood, maturity, class, complicated families, loss, return and writing.Â
Interesting enough material, The Lover would be additionally adapted into a film released in 1992 directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. But, by no fault of the actors this is one title where I prefer the book. The film also had effects on Duras. A filmmaker herself who had previously in mind a screenplay but apparently experienced some disagreements with Annaud, she revisited The Lover in more of a playwright format as The North China Lover published near the film’s release. Personally, in this case too much thought on comparisons doesn’t give reasonable returns. It’s pretty cultural the sort of elucidation one may come up with anyway.Â
As much as sexual desires and passion may be in the pages (some of a sapphic reverie too btw) of The Lover, there is further the dreams and love of writing. The naissance of that passion. Of a girl growing up in adverse circumstances, a woman in later years reflecting on memory. I recommend the slim book, with a glass of wine if one is so inclined.Â
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Racism, Drug use, Death, and Grief
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide
Includes multiple loss of love ones, including parents, siblings and also stillbirth.