num_pages: 100
description: 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."
language: English
title: The stranger
titlecomplete: The stranger
characters: Salamano, Meursault, Raymond Sintès, Marie Cardona
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, School, French Literature, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, France
ratings_count: 1017756
places: New Mexico, Algeria, North Africa
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Matthew Ward
publisher: University Press of America