she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to their children later. And that for her part she would have had it hidden, had that late summer evening buried and burned to ashes.
Marguerite DurasAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer, Regisseur
- Nationality: french
- Born: April 4, 1914
- Died: March 3, 1996
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