The English article was written for website welcometovietnam about Huynh Thuy Le ancient house.
The Love story of Huynh Thuy Le and Marguerite Duras…
In the journey to discover the beauty of Mekong Delta, tourist can’t skip an ideal place such as Sa Dec. Sa Dec is located 140km away from Ho Chi Minh city to the south-west. It is a peaceful town standing by the Tien River in Dong Thap province. Long time ago, in Sa Dec, there was a touching love-story between Mr. Huynh Thuy Le and the world-famous French writer Marguerite Duras. “The Lover” is her most successful novel which based on the true story of her youthful affair with “a Chinese man”. Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, the forbidden love between a 15 years old French girl and a 30 years old Chinese man has taken away many tears and regrets of readers and audiences. Duras had never revealed the real name of her Chinese lover, but later she admitted to being the girl when the film “The Lover” was being made. And they never meant together, the last thing she heard of him was that he immigrated to the United States after the Chinese Revolution, the movie was filmed at their own place and he had already died when the movie was produced. Later, everyone knows “A Chinese man” in this story describes a rich Vietnamese Chinese merchant whose real-name is Huynh Thuy Le. Do you want to know about their love story in real life? His ancient house and lots of their memories are currently being kept at the address: 255A, Nguyen Hue street, ward 2, Sa Dec, Dong Thap province.