- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD; Reprinted edition edition (28 May 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0020730403
- ISBN-13: 978-0020730408
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.9 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,684,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Traces the struggle of a large, uneducated, immigrant family, as its members to survive in the indifferent society of suburban Paris.
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Marguerite Duras is one of Europe's few unquestionably great literary figures. In 'Summer Rain' she intertwines the everyday and the inexplicable to characteristically disquieting effect.
An unemployed immigrant couple and their seven children live in a dilapidated house in the featureless commuter suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. They exist on the margins of society, surviving on government grants and charitable handouts. The children are not sent to school, but spend their days wandering aimlessly through Vitry. Then one day Ernesto, the oldest child, comes across a book. Ernesto doesn't know how to read. He doesn't know how old he is (except that he's somewhere between twelve and twenty). All he knows is his own name. Yet, somehow, he 'understands' the book.
Unsettling, intriguing, haunting, 'Summer Rain' is the work of a major writer at the height of her powers.
'She cannot write a dull sentence'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'One of our most powerful and disturbing contemporary writers'
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