Stranger

<b>The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus now in a striking American English translation <i>The Stranger </i>remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.</b> <p/><b>Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. <i>The Stranger </i>is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France's.--<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b> <p/>Since it was first published in English in 1946 Albert Camus's first novel <i>The Stranger </i>(L'etranger) has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach Camus explored what he termed the nakedness of man faced with the absurd. <p/>Now in this illuminating translation extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity the original intent of <i>The Stranger </i>is made more immediate. This haunting novel has been given a new life for generations to come.