{"product_id":"the-sailor-from-gibraltar-9781934824047","title":"The Sailor from Gibraltar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A haunting tale of strange and random passion.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Sailor from Gibraltar\u003c\/i\u003e finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the \"Sailor from Gibraltar.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1952, this early novel of Duras's--which was made into a film in 1967--shows those preoccupations which have so deeply concerned her in her later novels and film scripts: loneliness, boredom, the inevitability and intangibility of love. The lambent poetry of the book, and the limning of a woman's mind, her love and sense of the inevitability of that love are singularly Marguerite Duras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarguerite Duras\u003c\/b\u003e wrote dozens of plays, film scripts, and novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ravishing of Lol Stein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHiroshima, Mon Amour\u003c\/i\u003e. She's most well known for \u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e which received the Goncourt prize in 1984 and was made into a film in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Bray\u003c\/b\u003e translated several works by Marguerite Duras, including \u003ci\u003eThe Malady of Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe War.\u003c\/i\u003e In addition, she has translated Jean Genet, Ismail Kadare, and Tahar Ben Jelloun, and has received the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934824047\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.60w x 0.84d","brand":"Marguerite Duras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39521291141301,"sku":"9781934824047","price":11.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_809d69f0-bc47-46f6-b666-e8ea6fe85d44.jpg?v=1616504263","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sailor-from-gibraltar-9781934824047","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}