Volume 32, Number 7 · April 25, 1985
Children of the Cape
By Neal Ascherson
The Wall of the Plague: A Novel
by André Brink
Summit, 447 pp., $17.95
In the eighteenth century, in a region of southern France which lies to the northeast of Avignon, a wall of stone was built to keep out the plague. The pestilence came up from the coast and leaped across the wall before it was finished. Now there are only a few stretches of the ruined rampart, and many mass graves.
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