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Also by Marlon James:

Moon Witch, Spider King, February 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, February 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
A Brief History of Seven Killings, October 2014
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The Book of Night Women, February 2009
Hardcover

THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN
By: Marlon James

Riverhead Hardcover
February 2009
On Sale: February 19, 2009
432 pages
ISBN: 1594488576
EAN: 9781594488573
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

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.

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