The Book of Night Women

Marlon James

Original title: The book of night women

first published 2009 Oneworld Publications, 2014 432 pages

From a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can be compared only to Toni Morrison's Beloved.The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel—a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling—that tells the story of a young slave woman on a sugar plantation in Jamaica at the turn of the nineteenth century, revealing a world and a cult...

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Book of Night Women edition · 2014 · Oneworld Publications · 432 pages · 9781780746524
Book of Night Women edition · 2014 · Oneworld Publications · 432 pages · 9781780747132
The Book of Night Women ebook · 2009 · Penguin Group USA, Inc. · 9781101011270
The book of night women edition · 2009 · Riverhead Books · 417 pages · 9781594488573

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