In decades of studying the subject, the best book I have ever read about immigration, fiction or nonfiction, was written by a semi-obscure poet who shunned attention and died, scarcely noticed by the political world, in 2022.
No, it’s not Camp of the Saints, Jean Raspail’s prophetic but controversial take on the future of third-world immigration to the West, which foretold the future in some ways but was also sometimes painted with overly broad brushstrokes.
It’s a novel that, while compared favorably by several contemporary reviewers to Orwell’s Animal Farm, was ignored by the literary mainstream and disappeared largely without a trace.
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