The Morning Star

The Last of the Just made André 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 Star from 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 Star is "a delicate, necessary portrait" (Booklist), both a vitally engrossing tale and a powerful recognition of the dark forces of history.