Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus

These six stories, first collected in 1957, clearly show the breadth and variety of Albert Camus's genius. Their settings range from a Parisian cafe to the North African desert to the Brazilian rain forest; their themes from romantic longing to the loss of faith, from the artist's need for solitude to the liberation of assuming an obligation. Camus's muscular prose, filled with life and rich in expressive power, evokes scenes and characters than, once encountered by a reader, can never be forgotten.

Knopf 1995 paperback edition in great condition, see photos.