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Chantal : a novel

Chantal is a bitter, selfish orphan, who wants nothing but comfort and ease in life and is willing to do almost anything to get it. She becomes the mistress of a married man who keeps her lavishly in her own apartment. Suddenly she contracts leprosy and goes off to an island in Fiji, Makogai, to be cured. Her cure takes five years, at the end of which she becomes a nun and goes back to the island to take care of the other lepers. Her change of heart was a little abrupt

Print Book, English, 1954
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954