The Ballad of the Sad Café

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Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is her masterpiece- an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.