{"product_id":"india-song-paperback","title":"India Song - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarguerite Duras\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBarbara Bray\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Unusual and magnificent . . . a shock to received ideas delivered by a dramatist of genius.\" --Harold Hobson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally commissioned as a play for Britain's National Theatre, \u003ci\u003eIndia Song\u003c\/i\u003e was made into a film that premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Cinematographer\u003c\/i\u003e praised it for its \"imaginative use of voices creating an echo chamber effect that perpetuates the past,\" and Molly Haskell called it \"Marguerite Duras' most perfectly realized film, the most feminine film I have seen, a rarefied work of lyricism, despair, and passion, imbued with a kind of primitive emotional hunger that is all the more moving for its austere setting.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8.23 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 13, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":71434069410045,"sku":"9780802131355","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/KH_MLMBIXf9780802131355.webp?v=1790790644","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/india-song-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}