The Outsider: Manga Edition (Penguin Modern Classics)

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The first manga adaptation of one of the world’s greatest twentieth-century fiction classics'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'An outsider in society, an outsider in his own life, Meursault seems indifferent to everything. The death of his mother, a marriage proposal, the brutality of a friend… even the random act of violence he commits on a sun-drenched beach.An act which lands him in the dock, waiting for judgement. Adapted by the Japanese artist Ryota Kurumado, this is the first ever manga version of Albert Camus’s masterpiece: the portrayal of a man confronting the absurdity of human life.