Exile and the kingdom - Albert Camus

Set in North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, the six stories inthis masterful collectionreveal probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn.

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them.A wife can only surrender to a desert
night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations
as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the
worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. They display Camus at the height of his powers.

Now, on the
50th anniversary of the book's publication, Carol Cosman's new translation recovers
a literary treasure for our time.

Albert Camus won the
Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1957.