India Song

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.

Summary

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.

Product details

• Authors: Marguerite Duras
• Assisted by: Barbara Bray (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.1994
• EAN: 9780802131355
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3135-5
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Duras, Marguerite
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; India, Diwali, c 1930 to c 1939, Film Scripts & Screenplays, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Indian