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Vctor Martinez
Apr 10, 2018 rated it really liked it
A Camus nunca le sobran palabras, siempre tiene la combinación perfecta. Un libro muy recomendable.
Anna
Mar 09, 2015 rated it liked it
An interesting look at the creeping horror of any disaster, as held up and created by man. An Irish author wrote that God sent the blight (on the potato crops) but that the british created the famine. Authority creates an epidemic; by suppressing or withholding information, misdirecting funds and supplies etc. There was a drought on the African continent, but the horrors of the drought and subsequent annihilation of a large portion of the population was caused by the greed of local warlords and ...more
Annie
Nov 20, 2012 rated it really liked it

For my Around the World challenge (Algeria).

Ominous and bleak tale of how a post-WWII plague grips the Algerian town Oran, and how its citizens cope with disease, isolation, death, suffering, and survival. Terrifying and unforgettable.
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