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Described by the New York Times as both beautifully written and devastating', this is a startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery - a tour de force of voice and storytelling. At the heart of the novel is the extraordinary character Lilith, a spirited slave girl struggling to transcend the violence into which she is born, her story narrated in one of the boldest literary voices to grace the page. Overflowing with high drama and heartbreak, at its centre is the conspiracy of the Night Women, a clandestine council of fierce slave women plotting an island-wide revolt. Rebellions simmer, incidents of sadism and madness run rampant, and the tangled web of power relationships dramatically unravels amid dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion.
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With resonances of the eeriness of Marlon James has written an exquisite, haunting and beautiful novel, impossible to resist. Like the best of literature, The Book of Night Women deserves to be passed down hand to hand, generation to generation. --Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Lilith's narration is one of the novel's strongest features, written in the vernacular and carrying its own drum-like rhythm which is as lyrical as it is hypnotic. --The Independent
With resonances of the eeriness of Toni Morrison's Beloved and of the colonial inhumanity of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, James astutely meshes together a story which explores what freedom means and if it can ever really exist. Turning over The Book of Night Women's final page, one feels a horrible and sobering sense of history's nightmarish weight. --The Literateur
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Lilith's narration is one of the novel's strongest features, written in the vernacular and carrying its own drum-like rhythm which is as lyrical as it is hypnotic. --The Independent
With resonances of the eeriness of Toni Morrison's Beloved and of the colonial inhumanity of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, James astutely meshes together a story which explores what freedom means and if it can ever really exist. Turning over The Book of Night Women's final page, one feels a horrible and sobering sense of history's nightmarish weight. --The Literateur
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.”
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- PublisherOneworld Publications
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1851687289
- ISBN 13 9781851687282
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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