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Strangers is the story of a mixed marriage, between a Tunisian Jew and Marie, a Catholic girl from Alsace whom he meets and marries while studying medicine in Paris. His decision to settle among his own people in Tunis, there to establish a practice as a doctor, begins for them a married life which, conceived in honesty and love, soon rings to the surface profound and bitter conflicts. Marie is confronted with what to her is a strange new world. There is the contrast between the staid Northern atmosphere of Europe and the colorful, uninhibited Mediterranean and even more important, the conflict between Marie's own upbringing and the network of Jewish laws and traditions in which her husband's family lives. The story of Marie and her husband is a compelling one; rarely have the conflicts of mixed marriage been so deeply probed in a work of fiction, and Albert Memmi, whose first novel The Pillar of Salt was so highly praised, brings to this theme the same clarity of style and perception which were so notable in that first novel. Strangers posed many questions: it not only asks if a man and woman of different civilizations, cultures and nationalities can live together; it also asks if peoples who speak different languages, observe different customs and have dissimilar interests can live in peace together, side by side. -- Publisher description.