While I guess it's to be expected at the end of the year and getting towards the festive season, there were only two of us who had read the The Lover by Marguerite Duras (and Richard hadn't finished it).
I found it a complicated and uncomfortable book to read because it really is dealing with the sexual relationship with a young girl (early teenager) and the older man, a son of a rich Chinese businessman. While the book is said to be largely autobiographical, it's difficult to step back from the subject matter and discern whether this really is an abusive relationship or not; the author doesn't paint it as such from her point of view, in fact the person who seems to being abused is the businessman's son.
It prompted a lot of discussion about Grace Tame and whether her abuser would have portrayed himself as the abused party in that "relationship."
Our next book is The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carré. See you at Nice Guys on Feb 7.
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