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The narrative centers on a young, impoverished French girl living in colonial Vietnam in the late 1920s. She is 15 and a half, standing on a ferry crossing the Mekong River, wearing a man’s silk hat and a worn silk dress. There, she attracts the gaze of a wealthy, older Chinese man. What follows is an illicit affair that defies the racial taboos and rigid social structures of the era. The Lover Duras Epub