The First Man
Original title: Le premier homme
earliest edition we have, 1994 Feryane, 1995
Huang guan cong shu -- di 2779 zhong
"The First Man is a radiant, deeply moving novel of childhood. Camus intended it as the opening book of a projected epic - his War and Peace - but in its storytelling magic and its evocative power, it has a satisfying completeness on its own, covering, as it does, the years of Camus's childhood in Algeria. As he recaptures memories of growing up fatherless with a deaf-mute mother and an illiterate, tyrannical grandmo...
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