The Sea Wall

Marguerite Duras · 1950 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A French widow in 1930s Indochina has sunk twenty years of savings into a rice concession the colonial land office sold her knowing the Pacific floods it every season, and the log barrier she builds against the sea gives way. Her two adolescent children wait out the ruin on the plain until a rich planter's son begins courting the daughter with a diamond. Duras's breakthrough, and the colonial childhood she kept rewriting for forty years.

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  Marguerite Duras · 1984 CE · Novel — reworks this

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