Amazon Banned ‘The Camp of the Saints.’ I Wrote Its Foreword.
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You can buy all kinds of things on Amazon, from sex toys to Mein Kampf. Yet last week, Amazon decided that Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel, The Camp of Saints, was beyond the pale of respectability.
Vauban Books, a small independent publishing house, had been selling a new translation of the book for months. Sales had been going well. But a number of media outlets, from Le Monde to New York Magazine, had noticed the new edition and condemned it. So on April 17, Amazon removed the paperback edition,
Vauban Books, a small independent publishing house, had been selling a new translation of the book for months. Sales had been going well. But a number of media outlets, from Le Monde to New York Magazine, had noticed the new edition and condemned it. So on April 17, Amazon removed the paperback edition,
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