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Dec 07, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A passionate and radiant account of Camus' boyhood in Algeria. The protagonist, Jacques, searches for information about his father who dies in the first World War. He lives an intensely inquiring life with his beloved deaf-mute mother and an authoritarian grandmother. Rescued by a prescient school teacher, from a working class life of great poverty, he is educated and set on his way to becoming the powerful and humane writer that we know. At last, this unedited manuscript found in the car with him when he died in 1960 has been published by his daughter.