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This story begins in the aftermath of a nuclear war that has reduced our world to ashes. Luckily, a few found their way to the stars and into immortality. In the year 3000, nostalgic for the past, they return to earth in an effort to reconstruct the loves of the people who lived there.
The Morning Star flows between the poetic, the fantastic and the realistic as it weaves the tale of the Jewish people from Abraham to the Holocaust and into the future.
Andre Schwarz-Bart was born in Metz, France. Fifteen years later his parents were arrested and shipped to a Nazi concentration camp. The Last of the Just was an international bestseller and is in print today by Overlook Press.
"The sections focusing on the shtetl life, the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camp-- with their mix of magical realism and starkly realistic descriptions of the horror of the Shoah-- are beautifully written and emotionally moving." -- The Reporter
"A compelling approach to one of the 20th century's darkest chapters"--io9
"Exquisite . . . A celebration of life in all its transience... The most hopeful work of Holocaust literature that I have read."--Jewish Review of Books
"Schwarz-Bart's is a powerful comment on the need for awareness of man's common origins that transcend nationality and culture."--ForeWord Magazine
"Schwarz-Bart's debut, The Last of the Just (1959), is regarded as one of the great works of contemporary Jewish literature. Fifty years later and four years after his death, a bookend to that novel appears, patched together from the author's manuscripts by his widow, Simone. Like the earlier novel, this is an intensely personal tale of the Holocaust that stands apart from other works of its type in its distinctive approach. Combining fact, myth, folktale, and fantasy, the plot spans several thousand years, from a small Polish village in the late 19th century to the year 3000 in another solar system. At its heart is a simple and powerful story of a flute-playing cobbler's son who loses his family but survives both the Warsaw ghetto and the extermination camp at Auschwitz. Schwarz-Bart's harmonious prose stirs the emotions as he considers the unfathomable darkness of the human soul and the brightness of the morning that will always follow. A moving and illuminating read in its own right, his final novel serves as a fitting coda to one of the past century's most striking literary careers."--Library Journal
"Schwarz-Bart's tale is a delicate, necessary portrait, wavering between faith and disbelief, reconciliation and doubt."--Booklist
"Magical, moving and beautiful . . . In this moving and highly inventive novel, Schwarz-Bart uses the techniques of the folktale to add timeless power to his storytelling . . . The Morning Star is a beautiful novel with the luminous power of myth . . . A beautiful and magical novel with the timeless power of a folktale"--Richard Zimler, author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
"With beautiful language, striking images, and a surreal landscape populated with Jewish heroes and folklore, Andre Schwarz-Bart turns the unthinkable and unbearable into a dazzling portrait of courage and hope, and shows us why it is important to tell and retell these stories." --Jewish Book World
The Morning Star flows between the poetic, the fantastic and the realistic as it weaves the tale of the Jewish people from Abraham to the Holocaust and into the future.
Andre Schwarz-Bart was born in Metz, France. Fifteen years later his parents were arrested and shipped to a Nazi concentration camp. The Last of the Just was an international bestseller and is in print today by Overlook Press.
"The sections focusing on the shtetl life, the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camp-- with their mix of magical realism and starkly realistic descriptions of the horror of the Shoah-- are beautifully written and emotionally moving." -- The Reporter
"A compelling approach to one of the 20th century's darkest chapters"--io9
"Exquisite . . . A celebration of life in all its transience... The most hopeful work of Holocaust literature that I have read."--Jewish Review of Books
"Schwarz-Bart's is a powerful comment on the need for awareness of man's common origins that transcend nationality and culture."--ForeWord Magazine
"Schwarz-Bart's debut, The Last of the Just (1959), is regarded as one of the great works of contemporary Jewish literature. Fifty years later and four years after his death, a bookend to that novel appears, patched together from the author's manuscripts by his widow, Simone. Like the earlier novel, this is an intensely personal tale of the Holocaust that stands apart from other works of its type in its distinctive approach. Combining fact, myth, folktale, and fantasy, the plot spans several thousand years, from a small Polish village in the late 19th century to the year 3000 in another solar system. At its heart is a simple and powerful story of a flute-playing cobbler's son who loses his family but survives both the Warsaw ghetto and the extermination camp at Auschwitz. Schwarz-Bart's harmonious prose stirs the emotions as he considers the unfathomable darkness of the human soul and the brightness of the morning that will always follow. A moving and illuminating read in its own right, his final novel serves as a fitting coda to one of the past century's most striking literary careers."--Library Journal
"Schwarz-Bart's tale is a delicate, necessary portrait, wavering between faith and disbelief, reconciliation and doubt."--Booklist
"Magical, moving and beautiful . . . In this moving and highly inventive novel, Schwarz-Bart uses the techniques of the folktale to add timeless power to his storytelling . . . The Morning Star is a beautiful novel with the luminous power of myth . . . A beautiful and magical novel with the timeless power of a folktale"--Richard Zimler, author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
"With beautiful language, striking images, and a surreal landscape populated with Jewish heroes and folklore, Andre Schwarz-Bart turns the unthinkable and unbearable into a dazzling portrait of courage and hope, and shows us why it is important to tell and retell these stories." --Jewish Book World
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