Exile and the Kingdom (Vintage International)

Exile and the Kingdom (Vintage International)

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. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in <i>Exile and the Kingdom</i> are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man€s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers. <br> <br>Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book€s publication, Carol Cosman€s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time. <br><br>Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.