# Exile and the Kingdom

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- Book: [Exile and the Kingdom](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/exile-and-the-kingdom) ([Exile and the Kingdom.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/exile-and-the-kingdom.md))
- Authors: [Albert Camus](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-425-1
- Published: 2013-10-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil. Here a Frenchwoman is gradually seduced by the sheer difference of North Africa, a mutilated renegade is driven mad by the cruelty of his own people, and a barrel-maker watches the slow decline of his craft. A kindly teacher must choose between the law and a life, while a modest painter is out of his depth in the hypocrisy of the art world, and a French engineer discovers a new sense of belonging in a distant land.