Best Translated Novel of the Decade &; Lit HubA New York Times Notable Book of 2015 &; Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015, New York Times &; TIME Magazine Top Ten Books of 2015 &; Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year &; Financial Times Best Books of the Year&;A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus&;s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.&; &;The New Yorker He was the brother of &;the Arab&; killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus&;s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling&;s memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name&;Musa&;and describes the events that led to Musa&;s casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach.                 In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die.                 The Stranger is of course central to Daoud&;s story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice. Read Less