Thalia Book Club: The Lover

· Symphony Space · Narrated by Catherine Lacey, Akhil Sharma, Francoise Mouly, Kate Zambreno, and Kathleen Chalfant
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1 hr 21 min
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Catherine Lacey (Nobody Is Ever Missing), Akhil Sharma (Family Life), Francoise Mouly (art editor at The New Yorker), and Kate Zambreno (Heroines, Green Girl) discuss the acclaimed novel in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Marguerite Duras’ (Hiroshima Mon Amour) haunting, luminous book tells of the tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover in pre-war Indochina. With a reading by Kathleen Chalfant (The Affair, Angels in America on Broadway).

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