The Morning Star

Beautiful, haunting, and gripping, this posthumous novel by Andre Schwarz-Bart, author of The Last of the Just, one of the great novels of the 20th century, follows survivors of nuclear war, who, having escaped to the stars, return to Earth in the year 3000 to recover the past.

June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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