Marguerite Duras — The War: A Memoir

Title: The War: A Memoir — Marguerite Duras

Author: Marguerite Duras

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition: First American Edition, 1986

ISBN: 0394552369

Condition: Second-hand. Good vintage condition. Dust jacket shows light rubbing, small marks, mild discolouration and shelf wear. Edges and corners show minor bumping. Interior appears clean with light age-toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A spare, intense memoir from Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray. Originally published in France as La Douleur, this work draws on Duras’s wartime experience in occupied France, including the arrest and return of her husband Robert Antelme from the concentration camps.

Part memoir, part literary reconstruction, The War is a powerful account of waiting, survival, political violence, grief and moral ambiguity in the final months of the Second World War.