Francois Mauriac

A Kiss for the Leper

Novella about a man's redemption through compassion for a diseased leper

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Francois Mauriac

French author and Nobel laureate whose fiction explored sin, grace, and redemption in the provincial Bordeaux bourgeoisie. Therese Desqueyroux is his masterpiece, a chilling psychological portrait of a woman trapped by convention.

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