The Meursault Investigation

"An aimless, bored and amoral Frenchman gets distracted by the sun on an Algerian beach and impulsively takes someone’s life. That nameless murdered man from Albert Camus’ existential classic, The Stranger, becomes the motivating figure in Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation. Daoud gives the man a name, Moses, and a mourning brother, who narrates this taut and riveting novel. The story is less a rebuttal to The Stanger than a continuation of it; it clicks into place like clockwork. And while the book also reflects its source in its off-kilter, mesmerizing tonality, The Meursault Investigation is more than a tribute; it’s a tour de force."