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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 plot of the most famous novel (1984) by the French writer, screenwriter and director is set in Vietnam, the country where Duras spent her childhood.
In the small village of Sowerbridge in Hampshire, elderly woman Lavinia Fanshaw and her carer Dorothy Jenkins were brutally murdered.
Humboldt's Gift is a meditation on the value of artistic integrity in a world obsessed with money and fame.