{"product_id":"the-stranger","title":"The Stranger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus now in a striking American English translation.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eremains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France’s.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus’s first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow, in this illuminating translation, extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis made more immediate. This haunting novel has been given a new life for generations to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51558281052475,"sku":"9780679720201","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/9150\/3419\/files\/9780679720201_46dd2.jpg?v=1786639660","url":"https:\/\/paperandvinebooks.com\/products\/the-stranger","provider":"Paper \u0026 Vine Book Bar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}