Publisher's Synopsis
A man who refuses to lie to the end of his life in order to conform to society. Facing the gentle indifference of the world, he is always a stranger. The protagonist Meursault is a taciturn office worker living in Algiers. The story begins with one of the most famous and brief telegrams in later literary history and ends with a death trial. This trial and Kafka's novel The Trial are two of the most famous trial scenes in literary history.