杜拉斯代表作之一，自传性质的小说，获一九八四年法国龚古尔文学奖。全书以法国殖民者在越南的生活为背景，描写贫穷的法国女孩与富有的中国少爷之间深沉而无望的爱情。

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.