Books like The Plague
When plague strikes the Algerian city of Oran, the town is sealed off, and Dr Rieux and a handful of others fight the epidemic, in a parable about how people behave when catastrophe strips away pretence.
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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.
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.
Blindness
A nameless city descends into chaos when an epidemic of blindness strikes without warning, and humanity's darkest instincts surface.
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.
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.
Seeing
The sequel to Blindness: the city holds an election where every ballot is cast blank, and the government's response reveals that democracy's greatest threat is its own defenders.
The Tartar Steppe
A young Italian officer is posted to a remote fortress on the edge of a desert where the enemy has been expected for a century, and he learns how to wait.
Nausea
A philosopher in 1930s France discovers that the sheer existence of objects fills him with revulsion, and his diary charts the horror of a world without meaning.
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.
Jean Barois
Told largely in dialogue and documents, the life of Jean Barois, raised a Catholic, who loses his faith to science, founds a crusading review during the Dreyfus Affair and faces death.
Life & Times of Michael K
Michael K, a gardener with a harelip and a slow way of speaking, sets out across a South Africa torn by civil war to take his sick mother back to the countryside where she grew up, and keeps trying to live on his own terms, outside every camp.
The Betrothed
Two Lombardy peasants are prevented from marrying by a local tyrant and spend the novel finding each other again across plague, war, and the politics of 17th-century northern Italy.