The novel begins with a telegram to Meursault from the old people's home: "Mother died today. Funeral tomorrow. Yours faithfully." The home is in Marengo, eighty kilometers from Algiers. From here, the events escalate with an appearance of indifference and an essence of irony.

Meursault, the narrator, delves into describing the elderly residents and the funeral. No feelings came to Meursault in those moments except that he was smoking and drinking coffee with milk with the caretaker. All that vanished in a moment of overwhelming desire... surging with lust when he meets his girlfriend, who always thinks of him as eccentric. Then we see Meursault go to the cinema to watch a comedy film after burying his mother!

Meursault commits the murder of an Arab man, for which he receives a death sentence. Camus closes his novel with Meursault's words regarding this sentence: "On that night, teeming with stars, I felt for the first time the gentle tenderness of indifference. I felt that I had been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

"The Stranger" was Camus's first novel and the one that brought him fame. It does not tell the story of a person alienated from his land but rather the story of the eccentric Meursault. Meursault is a Frenchman living in Algeria, specifically in Oran, among many Europeans who occupy the entire city. The stranger was a person who always accepted his life as it was, whatever it might be. Meursault's only characteristic was his extreme honesty in expressing his feelings; he never tried in any situation he faced to express something he did not feel in order to appear normal in the eyes of others.

• Author: Albert Camus
• Translator: Yara Shoa'a
• Publisher: Dar Ninaoua for Studies, Publishing and Distribution - Damascus
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Number of Pages: 112
• Number of Parts: 1
• Binding Type: Paperback
• Paper Type: Recycled
• Printing Colors: Monochrome
• ISBN: 9789933536251