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Title: The Book of Night Women
Condition: New
Subtitle: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Author: Marlon James
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1780746520
EAN: 9781780746524
ISBN: 9781780746524
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Historical Fiction
Release Date: 02/10/2014
Description:

A startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytelling

'A story of such depth and humanity that you’ll want to spend hours picking apart the nuances even as you recover emotionally from this wrenching read.' Vogue

By the Man Booker-winning author Marlon James, this is the powerful 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.


Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 31mm
Language: English
Release Year: 2014

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