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| Title | : | The Book of Night Women |
| Author | : | Marlon James |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 417 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2009 by Riverhead Books (first published January 17th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. African American. Novels. Literary Fiction. Audiobook |
Marlon James
Hardcover | Pages: 417 pages Rating: 4.36 | 9250 Users | 1442 Reviews
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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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| Original Title: | The Book of Night Women |
| ISBN: | 1594488576 (ISBN13: 9781594488573) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Jamaica |
| Literary Awards: | Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2010), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2009), Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story (2010) |
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Ratings: 4.36 From 9250 Users | 1442 ReviewsCommentary Of Books The Book of Night Women
well, the 'question of evil' has plagued philosophers thinkers and all the rest of us ordinary folk since, i'd imagine, we were first capable of thought: how can god allow such horrible shit to go down? is the horribleness of humanity proof that god doesn't exist? as a wee lad in hebrew school i was told that we simply cannot understand what god is up to, that the whole enterprise of trying to figure god's motives was corrupted with inferior - that is, 'human' - logic... "so don't even botherJesus, what a book. This book is absolutely unflinching in its portrayal of slavery in 18th century Jamaica. Vicious prose, and in-your-face, no-holds-barred detail. It's also completely dedicated to voice and perspective, and the choices James made here are exquisitely laudable. It also weaves a beautiful story amid tragic characters, with enough sensory language to make you cringe. This is, absolutely, a book about what it means to make choices.There are three things I'll say about this book:
I read this when it first came out and it has stayed with me. Marlon James is a writing god and this book is powerful beyond words.
This song was running through my head for most of the second half of the book.But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steepleAnd you'll never change the system by bombing number tenSystems just aren't made of bricks they're mostly made of peopleYou may send them into hiding, but they'll be back againMovements are systems and systems kill(some ramblings about politics has been excised here)Following the general theories of Marx, and discounting Rousseau's mythology about the noble
I dnf'd this book because I swapped to audio (proper review there). I wanted to read this book because of this review which made me laugh:"I have spent the last week or so with words going through my brain that one cannot use in the real world. There was not only the oft-repeated word for a black person that was common in the 18th century, but there was constant use of the c-word and the p-word for female genitalia and the c-word for mail genitalia and the f-word for what the f-word really
UPDATEI just finished rereading this and some of my thoughts have shifted a bit. I had last given this book 5 stars. This time I'm giving it 4 stars. The author has a weird obsession with lady parts. He must have implemented his obsession with lady parts in at least every other page of this novel and almost every time it brought nothing to the plot. I will do a new review later but for now my old one is below."Every negro walk in a circle. Take that and make of it what you will."To call this
Truly an astonishing piece of work. Mesmerizing. Horrifying.Review to follow....
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