What is the author's style in The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart?

The Last of the Just begins with an omniscient narrator, who takes the reader through the first generations of the Just Man. Most generations are covered quickly, giving a little bit of history on the political and religious temperature of the times, explaining why each man is chosen as the Just Men and how it affects their lives.

Rarely the author will include telling the story from another character's point of view, such as Herr Kremer's story contained in Chapter Five. The author is very skilled and changes in Point of View are effortless and seamless. When the narrator takes over it is as if the scene expands and moves back so that the reader has a greater view of the scene, and its importance in the reader's understanding of these particular plot points. Without the presence of the omniscient narrator, the story would be much more limited and less universal.