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A Memoir
New Press
August 1994
On Sale: August 1, 1994
194 pages
ISBN: 1565842219
EAN: 9781565842212
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras's
riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation
and the first months of liberation depicts the harrowing
realities of World War II-era France "with a rich conviction
enhanced by [a] spare, almost arid, technique" (Julian
Barnes, The Washington Post Book World). Duras, by then
married and part of a French resistance network headed by
François Mitterand, tells of nursing her starving husband
back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen,
interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game
of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to
her.
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