The Lover by Marguerite Duras.
Marguerite Duras returns to the prewar Indochina of her childhood in a novel shaped by memory and desire.
Read it for the distance between an experience and its later telling. The book invites attention to how a writer brings the past close while preserving the uncertainty that memory cannot resolve.
Edition note: The cover shows the Pantheon paperback (ISBN 9780375700521). The Apple Books option is the English ebook (ISBN 9780307801203). Both use Barbara Bray's translation.
