The Book of Night Women

Author(s): Marlon James

International Fiction

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.


Product Information

Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. He graduated from the University of the West Indies with a degree in literature. He currently teaches creative writing at Macalester College in Minnesota.

General Fields

  • : 9781780746524
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.402
  • : September 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Marlon James
  • : Paperback
  • : 1412
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 432
  • : FA