Marlon James (geb. 1970): Book of Night Women, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Book of Night Women
- From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
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- Verlag:
- Oneworld Publications, 10/2014
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781780746524
- Artikelnummer:
- 5420039
- Umfang:
- 432 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 408 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke:
- 35 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 2.10.2014
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.
Biografie
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James lives in Minneapolis. He is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015.
