>The New Yorker: “The Bible” by Marguerite Duras

>Girl meets boy at a café in Paris. He’s obsessed with the Bible, even though he doesn’t believe in God. She doesn’t either, she only wants pleasure, and although she admires the boy she is bored by him. When she thinks of Jesus, she imagines her own father who also died unjustly. Translated by Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor.

December 25, 2006 and January 1, 2007: “The Bible” by Marguerite Duras

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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