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The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
The Book of Night Women
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Read Marlon James's posts on the Penguin blog. The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth,... show more
Read Marlon James's posts on the Penguin blog. The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It 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 slave women around her recognize a dark power that they—and she—will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy’s weak link. Lilith’s story overflows with high drama and heartbreak, and life on the plantation is rife with dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion—between slave and master, between slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith finds herself at the heart of it all. And all of it told in one of the boldest literary voices to grace the page recently—and the secret of that voice is one of the book’s most intriguing mysteries.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781594488573 (1594488576)
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
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Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it
4.0 The Book of Night Women
The Jamaican patois, narrated by Robin Miles, is remarkable. I was able to find this audiobook at Downpour!If you choose to read this book, you simply must read this version narrated by Robin Miles, but you must pay close attention. The Jamaican patois isn't the easiest to follow, but it is worth th...
Rowena's Reviews
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5.0
This book is about slavery in 19th Century Jamaica. It took me a while to get into this book because it is written entirely in Jamaican dialect (including the narration). Once you get used to that fact, the writing is quite charming. This book brought out lots of emotions in me, mainly disgust and a...
cassandragriggs
cassandragriggs rated it
5.0 The Book of Night Women
"The Book of Night Women" is a haunting tale of the slave woman's plight of having to find herself caught between the worlds of being the daughter of an overseer and slave. It is not just Lilith's story, but the story of all women who were slaves.
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