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An autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, told in fragmentary, poetic prose. Set in colonial Indochina in the 1920s, it follows a poor fifteen-year-old French girl who begins a passionate love affair with a wealthy Chinese merchant.
The Victory of the Nuns is an erotic novel by Jacques Rochette de La Morlière (often anonymous), part of Les Lauriers ecclésiastiques, which satirizes ecclesiastical hypocrisy through libertine adventures. With a foreword by Michel Camus.
The novel tells about the social rise of a poor young man, Julien Sorel, in a conservative, counter-revolutionary and authoritarian regime in the era of the re-establishment of the monarchy after the fall of Napoleon and the return of the Bourbon dynasty
The plot is presented through the intimate confession of a woman, who reveals a secret from her past to her confessor (or trusted friend) – an emotionally and morally complex episode that marked her for the rest of her life.
Convicts, Colonists and Kanaks is a powerful story about life in a French penal colony, which explores justice, freedom and colonial exploitation through the fates of convicts, colonists and Kanaks, while criticizing the dehumanizing system.