A Happy Death by Albert Camus.
Albert Camus's early novel follows an Algerian clerk who commits a murder. It brings questions of happiness and human freedom into contact with an act that cannot be separated from its moral consequences.
Read it alongside the problem its title poses. What would make a life happy, and what happens when the pursuit of happiness becomes a justification for treating another life as expendable?
Edition notes: The cover represents the Vintage paperback (ISBN 9780679764007). Apple Books offers the ebook (9780307827845). Both are translated from the French by Richard Howard.
