Marlon James
Hardcover | Pages: 417 pages Rating: 4.36 | 9250 Users | 1442 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Book of Night Women |
| ISBN: | 1594488576 (ISBN13: 9781594488573) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Jamaica |
| Literary Awards: | Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2010), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2009), Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story (2010) |
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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.Describe Epithetical Books The Book of Night Women
| Title | : | The Book of Night Women |
| Author | : | Marlon James |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 417 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2009 by Riverhead Books (first published January 17th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. African American. Novels. Literary Fiction. Audiobook |
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Ratings: 4.36 From 9250 Users | 1442 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books The Book of Night Women
It is a rare author that could make me like and remain interested in, even after I finished the book, a character who killed a lot of people, including burning children alive. It is the first book I've ever read about slaves where I understood slavery from the slaves point of view. I've read many slave memoirs where I have sympathised, been terribly moved and angry at the injustice, but I've never really understood how slaves carved out lives within the tiny sphere of self-determination theyI dnf'd this book because I swapped to audio (proper review there). I wanted to read this book because of this review which made me laugh:"I have spent the last week or so with words going through my brain that one cannot use in the real world. There was not only the oft-repeated word for a black person that was common in the 18th century, but there was constant use of the c-word and the p-word for female genitalia and the c-word for mail genitalia and the f-word for what the f-word really
June 20, 2018 Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Some time that good feeling come by taking on a different kinda bad feeling. I first read "The Book of Night Women" by Marlon James three years ago and decided to give it a re-read because I remember enjoying the book a lot. The Book of Night Women is set on plantation in Jamaica back in the 18th century. It follows the lives of the plantation owners and the some Night Women as they
I read this when it first came out and it has stayed with me. Marlon James is a writing god and this book is powerful beyond words.
As the first that I have read by Marlon James, OMFG it was so damn good. I was hooked by this book right from page one. This book follows a slave woman named Lilith from her birth to womanhood and the plantation that she lives on in Jamacia between the timeframe of 1785 to1801, which isn't a place I have ever read a slavery tale from. I don't want to give too much about the plot of the story because I feel like you should go into this book blind, but just know that it is a slave narrative and
Jesus, what a book. This book is absolutely unflinching in its portrayal of slavery in 18th century Jamaica. Vicious prose, and in-your-face, no-holds-barred detail. It's also completely dedicated to voice and perspective, and the choices James made here are exquisitely laudable. It also weaves a beautiful story amid tragic characters, with enough sensory language to make you cringe. This is, absolutely, a book about what it means to make choices.There are three things I'll say about this book:
This is the worst book I've ever read in my life.I cannot discuss it without giving "spoilers," but I will say this: slave narratives are not the place to be fucking around.James' language is crude, vile and lends nothing to the narrative. The narrative is hinged on over romanticized relationships between slaves and slave masters. In a very trite attempt to trouble the discourse or spark a nuanced discussion, Marlon James has successfully belittled the politics of enslaved black women of this
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