The Book of Night Women: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings - Softcover

James, Marlon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780746520 ISBN 13: 9781780746524

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2014

Synopsis

This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence and fear. But as Lilith comes of age and begins to understand her own feelings and identity, she dares to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman. And as rebellions simmer and unspoken jealousies intensify, Lilith's powers and sense of purpose threaten not just her own destiny, but the destinies of all the slave women in Jamaica.

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Review:

'Both beautifully written and devastating.' (New York Times) It reads like Faulkner in another skin. It is a brave book. And like the best, and most dangerous of stories, it seems as if it was just waiting to be told. --Colum McCann, author of Zoli and Dancer

An exquisite, haunting and beautiful novel... like the best of literature [it] deserves to be passed down hand to hand, generation to generation. --Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things

An epic novel of late-18th century West Indian slavery, complete with all its carnage and brutishness, but one that, like a Toni Morrison novel, whispers rather than shouts its horrors.' --Time Out

Book Description:

From a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery written “in the spirit of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, but in a style all his own.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780746520
• ISBN 13: 9781780746524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432