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Michel, a young scholar who married without love, nearly dies of tuberculosis on his honeymoon in North Africa, and recovers with a fierce new hunger for life and for the boys around him.
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A Happy Death
Patrice Mersault, an Algiers shipping clerk, kills a rich, crippled man and takes his money, then sets out to buy the time to be happy.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
Exile and the Kingdom
Six stories of exile, among them a French schoolteacher on an Algerian plateau told to deliver an Arab prisoner to the police, and a wife who slips out of her bed at night into the desert.
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Thérèse Desqueyroux travels home through the pine forests of the Landes, rehearsing the confession she means to make to him.
The Pastoral Symphony
A Protestant pastor in the Swiss Jura takes in Gertrude, a blind, abandoned orphan girl, and in his journal tells how he taught her to see the world, and how he came to love her.
The Desert of Love
In a Paris bar, Raymond Courrèges, now in his thirties, sees again Maria Cross, the kept woman both he and his father, a Bordeaux doctor, fell for years before.
The Meursault Investigation
Harun, an old man in a bar in Oran, tells the story of his brother, the Arab shot on a beach in Camus's The Stranger, who was never even given a name.
Madame Bovary
A provincial doctor's wife in mid-nineteenth-century France drowns in romantic fantasies, debt, and affairs, and her destruction exposes the poison of bourgeois aspiration.
The Spare Room
Helen gives her spare room in Melbourne to her old friend Nicola, who has come down from Sydney for three weeks of quack cancer treatment, and has to nurse her through it.
Ravelstein
Chick, an ageing writer, sets down the memoir he promised his friend Abe Ravelstein, a brilliant, extravagant Chicago professor whose book about the decline of the American mind has made him rich.
So Long a Letter
After her husband's death, a Senegalese schoolteacher writes to her oldest friend about the day he took a second wife and the life she rebuilt afterward.
The Age of Reason
Over two days in Paris in the summer of 1938, Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher who prizes his freedom above everything, tries to raise the money for his mistress's abortion.