Albert Camus - A Peste

On the morning of April 16, 1940, Dr. Bernard Rieux leaves his office and stumbles upon a dead rat. This is the first sign of a plague epidemic that soon takes over the entire city of Oran, Algeria. Subject to quarantine, the city becomes an unbreathable territory, and its inhabitants are driven to states of suffering, madness, but also compassion of immeasurable proportions.

A captivating story about horror, survival, and human resilience, *The Plague* is a parable of timeless resonance, a masterfully constructed novel that, originally published in 1947, definitively established Albert Camus as one of the fundamental authors of modern literature.