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The Morning Star
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.
"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.
- GenresFiction
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
André Schwarz-Bart
14 books27 followersAndré Schwarz-Bart (May 28, 1928, Metz, Moselle - September 30, 2006, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish origins.
Schwarz-Bart is best known for his novel The Last of the Just (originally published as Le Dernier des justes). The book, which traces the story of a Jewish family from the time of the Crusades to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, earned Schwarz-Bart the Prix Goncourt in 1959. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1967.
Schwarz-Bart's parents moved to France in 1924, a few years before he was born. In 1941, they were deported to Auschwitz. Soon after, Schwarz-Bart, still a young teen, joined the Resistance, despite the fact that his first language was Yiddish, and he could barely speak French. It was his experiences as a Jew during the war that later prompted him to write his major work, chronicling Jewish history through the eyes of a wounded survivor.
Schwarz-Bart died of a complications after heart surgery in 2006. He had spent his final years in Guadeloupe, with his wife, the novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, whose parents were natives of the island. The two co-wrote the book Pork and Green Bananas (1967). It is also suggested that his wife collaborated with him on A Woman Named Solitude.
Their son, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, is a noted jazz saxophonist.
Schwarz-Bart is best known for his novel The Last of the Just (originally published as Le Dernier des justes). The book, which traces the story of a Jewish family from the time of the Crusades to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, earned Schwarz-Bart the Prix Goncourt in 1959. He won the Jerusalem Prize in 1967.
Schwarz-Bart's parents moved to France in 1924, a few years before he was born. In 1941, they were deported to Auschwitz. Soon after, Schwarz-Bart, still a young teen, joined the Resistance, despite the fact that his first language was Yiddish, and he could barely speak French. It was his experiences as a Jew during the war that later prompted him to write his major work, chronicling Jewish history through the eyes of a wounded survivor.
Schwarz-Bart died of a complications after heart surgery in 2006. He had spent his final years in Guadeloupe, with his wife, the novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, whose parents were natives of the island. The two co-wrote the book Pork and Green Bananas (1967). It is also suggested that his wife collaborated with him on A Woman Named Solitude.
Their son, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, is a noted jazz saxophonist.
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October 14, 2011
Heartbreaking, reading Schwarz-Bart's account (in effect) of how it felt, at the age of eleven or twelve, to become the head of his family after his parents and older brother were murdered. Also poignant, to read his widow Simone's tender preface, where she thanks him for leaving the unfinished manuscript behind, so she could reclaim the joy of working by his side. If you love and admire Schwarz-Bart as much as I do, you'll appreciate The Morning Star for providing a few more pieces to the puzzle of his life and drawing you once more into his imaginative universe. But it is a work comprised of fragments, not entirely coherent as a story.
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July 28, 2011« La plupart des touristes prirent place devant un confortable café, une bière, un hot-dog, installés dans un bâtiment qui servait autrefois de mess aux officiers SS. Pendant de temps, une petite troupe d’une vingtaine de personnes, inconnues les unes aux autres, suivait les rails rouillés, qui allaient aux baraquements, deux kilomètres plus loin, où était censé se trouver le camp de Birkenau, l’annexe de Auschwitz I, destinée à l’extermination des juifs. »
April 26, 2011
An odd book, very Jewish (I say from reading Elie Wiesel and Chaim Potok) but an exquisite retelling of one man's life just before, during and after the Holocaust -- how he comes to terms with it and doesn't at the same time. A crystalline sort of book -- clear and direct, with many facets.
January 4, 2015
A wrenching, beautiful book - here's my full review:
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December 17, 2021
Leven is, zich bevrijd weten.
June 30, 2022
4.5 this book is a stunning depiction of one mans journey it is both hopeful and heartbreaking 💔
December 29, 2024
Depressing, but somehow hopeful
February 12, 2016
Difficult to put into words what this book has done. In a virtuoso paradox of economy and profound depth, Schwarz-Bart fit all of the world's oceans into a thimble. Could not put it down. Wept and wept for the loss of innocence and its preservation.
April 5, 2012
Not sure I really understood it, but there are some fantastic moments.
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