Described by the New York Times as both beautifully written and devastating , The Book of Night Women is a startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery - a tour de force of voice and storytelling. At the heart of the vel is the extraordinary character of 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
ISBN-10
1851687211
ISBN-13
9781851687213
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94983870
Product Key Features
Author
Marlon James
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Genre
General & Literary Fiction
Dimensions
Height
216mm
Width
135mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Prizes
Winner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Fiction 2010.
Author Biography
Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. He graduated from the University of the West Indies with a degree in literature, and currently teaches creative writing at Macalester College in Minnesota and is working on his next novel.