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Marguerite Duras · 1952
A novel set in colonial Indochina following a struggling family—Ma, Joseph, and Suzanne—living in isolation on a salt-soaked plain, whose lives change when they venture to the town of Ram. Duras's prose captures their poverty, boredom, and the small acts of resistance that define their existence.
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What this book knows
Colonial exploitation and maternal obsession turn a family's survival into a slow, furious education in how power and money devour the poor.
trauma-and-survival
On the fifteen land concessions of the plain of Kam, they had settled, ruined, driven off—the agents reserved irreclaimable land as their reserve of capital.
SW-RC-010In one night it had collapsed like a house of cards, succumbing to the elemental and implacable onslaught of the Pacific Ocean.
SW-RC-012The sea always rose enough to destroy everything. She had thrown her savings of ten years into the Pacific Ocean.
SW-RC-009obedience-and-authority
As soon as the whites arrived in the Colonies, they learned to wear suits of spotless white, the color of immunity and innocence—multiplying distance, white on white.
SW-RC-087ambition-and-status
Ma made it clear she expected Monsieur Jo to ask for Suzanne's hand; he kept her on tenterhooks with promises and gifts while profiting by relaxed vigilance.
SW-RC-033The diamond was enormous, the silk suit well tailored. Never had Joseph worn a silk suit.
SW-RC-019Illuminates
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