The French writer Marguerite Duras lived in Sa Đéc between 1928 and 1932. Her mother ran a school that still exists today. Duras met Huynh Thuy Le, the son of a wealthy Chinese family, and the two became involved in a love affair that became the basis for Duras's 1984 Prix Goncourt-winning novel, The Lover.
This afternoon it was a welcome refuge from the rain and a cup of tea although when I wandered to the back of the house and saw the crockery that was being washed up for the various groups piled in a sink with one cold tap, I did just wonder if it was connected to the Mekong? Why you ask well as you will learn later it may have been the source of an illness that beset me over the next 24 hours although I will never know for sure.
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