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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.
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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.
The Immoralist
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.
Woman at Point Zero
Firdaus, a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison for killing a man, tells a psychiatrist the story of her life.
Season of Migration to the North
A young Sudanese man, back in his Nile village after seven years studying in England, finds a stranger living there, Mustafa Sa'eed, who has his own story of London.
Foe
Susan Barton, cast away on an island with a man called Cruso and his tongueless servant Friday, comes back to England and asks the writer Daniel Foe to make her story into a book.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress in post-emancipation Jamaica, is married off to an unnamed Englishman who takes her to England, in a prequel to Jane Eyre told as a reckoning with colonialism.
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.
Notes from Underground
A bitter clerk in St. Petersburg writes a confession that swings between self-loathing and grandiosity, inventing the template for every unreliable narrator who followed.
No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
Gate of the Sun
In a makeshift hospital in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Khalil, a self-taught doctor, tells stories to Yunis, an old Palestinian fighter lying in a coma.
By Night in Chile
A priest reviews his life under Pinochet's regime in a single feverish night, and the monologue reveals the complicity of Chilean intellectuals with fascism.
A Horse Walks into a Bar
Dovaleh G, a stand-up comic in a club in Netanya, does his last show, and an old schoolfriend he has invited, a retired judge, watches it turn into something else.