A doctor in the Algerian city of Oran leads the fight against a rat-borne epidemic that seals the city's gates, an existentialist parable of absurdity, solidarity, and the will to keep struggling against a fate you cannot beat.
Books that mention The Plague (2)
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson: Epigraph: —Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947 (opening Chapter 48, 'Call to Arms').
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “it has more in common with a novel such as Camus's The Plague, in which a dystopian but familiar reality dramatises the dilemmas of the age”