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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.
In the book, Indochina, childhood, a poor family without a father, a self-confident girl, early passions, the arrival of a stranger in a small, remote place, the desolateness of rice fields, and much, much more await you.
"The Blue Lagoon" is a tender, sensual story about the sexual awakening of a young man and a girl growing up on a deserted island.
What it's like to grow up in a family where roles are mixed up, can be told by teenager Viktorija, who sometimes acts as a mom to her mother. How is that possible?
The novel itself is conceptually carried by a lucid comparison of Dalmatia and the Wild West: on a thematic level, cowboys are the mythical place of the childhood of the main character and her brother.
In the novel, the author describes and comments on domestic socio-political phenomena with dark humor and criticism, almost vaudeville-like, while using a good deal of lively and juicy Međimurje speech.