Morning Star A Novel

by Schwarz-Bart, Andre

• ISBN13: 9781590207345
• ISBN10: 1590207343
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-06
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

The Last of the Justmade Andr Schwarz-Bart famous for a novel that triumphantly defied traditional views of fiction. Four years after the author's death, his widow, Simone, rescued The Morning Starfrom his papers. This novel is the last word of a writer with a masterful and poignant sense of the past, present, and future. The story begins in the year 3000 and travels backward through the years to relive the history of one child's family: back to a Polish village and a mysterious massacre. Blending fact, religion, mysticism, and folklore with the author's personal connection to the Holocaust, The Morning Staris "a delicate, necessary portrait" ( Booklist), both a vitally engrossing tale and a powerful recognition of the dark forces of history.

Author Biography

André Schwarz-Bart (1928-2006) won the Goncourt Prize for The Last of the Just, a New York Times bestseller upon first publication, now in its sixth printing with Overlook. He was born in France. His parents were arrested in a Nazi roundup, and he served with the French Resistance.