The Plague

A parable of the highest order, The Plague tells the story of a terrible disease that descends upon Oran, Algiers, in a year unknown. After rats crawl from the sewer to die in the streets, people soon begin perishing from terrible afflictions. How the main characters in the book–a journalist, a doctor & a priest–face humanity in the wake of the plague presents one of the book’s many lessons. The book deserves to be read on several levels, because the pandemic represents any of a number of worldwide catastrophes–both past & future–& the difficult choices everyone must make to survive them.