num_pages: 117
description: Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a parable and the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century.
language: English
title: The Stranger
titlecomplete: The Stranger
characters: Salamano, Raymond Sintès, Meursault, Marie Cardona
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 1016519
places: New Mexico, Algeria, North Africa
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Matthew Ward
publisher: Knopf