by Marlon James · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781851687213
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«Book of Night Women» is the historical novel by Marlon James, published by Oneworld Publications in 2009, 432 pages in English.
Set on a sugar plantation in Jamaica at the end of the eighteenth century, it tells the story of Lilith, a slave whose birth the plantation women recognize as bearing a dark power. The Night Women, who are preparing a revolt, see her as key to their plans, but her awakening as a woman puts the conspiracy at risk.
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2010) and the Minnesota Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009).
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative, especially those seeking stories about slavery, resistance, and the Caribbean.
Marlon James is a Jamaican writer. He is the author of five novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won him the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), and Moon Witch, Spider King (2022). He wrote the limited series Get Millie Black.
