The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras.
Marguerite Duras follows Lol Stein as she returns to the town where an earlier abandonment unsettled her life. Marriage and outward stability offer little protection from the pull of memory and the desire to watch other people's intimacies.
This is a book for readers willing to remain inside uncertainty. Its interest lies in the difficulty of knowing another person, and in the stories an observer constructs to fill that absence.
Featured edition: Pantheon paperback, ISBN 9780394743042, translated by Richard Seaver. The publisher link below is for this paperback edition.