{"product_id":"moderato-cantabile-by-marguerite-duras-french","title":"'Moderato Cantabile' by Marguerite Duras (French)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeach yourself a little French with Duras.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOne of Duras’s sharpest and strangest early novels, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"959\" data-end=\"979\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eModerato Cantabile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e begins with a murder overheard during a child’s piano lesson and then drifts into obsession, repetition, and desire. A wealthy woman returns again and again to the café where the killing took place, circling the event with a former factory worker as though language itself might become a form of seduction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1550\"\u003eIt is a small, exacting book, but not a slight one. Duras pares everything back — plot, gesture, explanation — until class tension, erotic projection, and social performance begin to hum inside the silence. More incantation than drama, and all the better for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrench paperback in the Les Éditions de Minuit “Double”, 1958. Original publication date of 1957. Great condition for a 70 year old book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273857069139,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-25T090406.762.png?v=1774389862","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/moderato-cantabile-by-marguerite-duras-french","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}