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Author(s): Albert Camus

Location(s): Algeria

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): 1940s

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

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