This is a book about a young man who is struggling with the religious upbringing his Huguenot parents give him and when he seeks to appease them by getting married to a woman he doesn’t love, this struggle leads to his own disillusionment, the wages of sin, and her own deep unhappiness, stagnation, and doom. On honeymoon, Michel contracts tuberculosis to which his new wife devotes herself to his care while he ignores her affections for the love of various men across North Africa, and […]