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  • Jamie Sarkonak: I read โ€˜The Camp of the Saints.โ€™ Hereโ€™s why itโ€™s relevant Jamie Sarkonak
    Jean Raspailโ€™s The Camp of the Saints (1973) is easily one of the most suppressed books of the 20th century. Thatโ€™s because itโ€™s a dystopian novel about mass third-world migration, a topic still considered taboo to many. While The Handmaidโ€™s Tale and Nineteen Eighty-Fourย have become regular headliners of โ€œbanned bookโ€ campaigns and subjects of novel studies in school curriculums, English translations of Raspailโ€™s magnum opus have been so hard to find that used hard copies sold for prices ranging
     

Jamie Sarkonak: I read โ€˜The Camp of the Saints.โ€™ Hereโ€™s why itโ€™s relevant

23 April 2026 at 10:00
Jean Raspailโ€™s The Camp of the Saints (1973) is easily one of the most suppressed books of the 20th century. Thatโ€™s because itโ€™s a dystopian novel about mass third-world migration, a topic still considered taboo to many. While The Handmaidโ€™s Tale and Nineteen Eighty-Fourย have become regular headliners of โ€œbanned bookโ€ campaigns and subjects of novel studies in school curriculums, English translations of Raspailโ€™s magnum opus have been so hard to find that used hard copies sold for prices ranging into the hundreds. Until just last year, that is. Read More
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