A controversial novel about migrants arriving in Europe could soon be on a bookshelf near you – but it was written more than 50 years ago.

Published in 1973, Jean Raspail’s “The Camp of the Saints” depicted an overwhelming “influx of migrants”, said The Times , and it’s now enjoying a new lease of life after endorsements from Marine Le Pen and Steve Bannon made it a “totem for the hard right”.

‘Savagely racist’

Raspail’s “depiction of the migrants ” is “savagely, even gleefully, racist” and it’s “the most controversial novel” from a “serious” author in the past five decades, said the broadsheet. Even the “most militant of its admirers must admit” that it’s an “ugly book”.

It’s “become an object of reflexive condemnation”, said The Spectator , although many of those “condemnin

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