Abahn Sabana David

"Duras's language and writing shine like crystals." —

"A spectacular success. . Duras is at the height of her powers." — Edmund White

Available for the first time in English, is a late-career masterpiece from one of France's greatest writers.

Late one evening, David and Sabana — members of a communist group — arrive at a country house where they meet Abahn, the man they've been sent to guard and eventually kill for his perceived transgressions. A fourth man arrives (also named Abahn), and throughout the night these four characters discuss existential ideas of understanding, capitalism, violence, revolution, and dogs, while a gun lurks in the background the entire time.

Suspenseful and thought-provoking, Duras's novel calls to mind the plays of Samuel Beckett in the way it explores human existence and suffering in the confusing contemporary world.

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