- Literature, Slaves, Fiction, Historical Fiction
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 culture that is both familiar and entirely new.
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About the book
- Author
- Marlon James
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc., Riverhead Books, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781594488573
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