The Book of Night Women

The Book of Night Women

From the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings

"An undeniable success.â€ â€” The New York Times Book Review

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 theyâ€”and sheâ€”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 conspiracyâ€™s weak link.

Lilithâ€™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 emotionâ€”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 recentlyâ€”and the secret of that voice is one of the bookâ€™s most intriguing mysteries.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber new-20170302-c0023234
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2009-02-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594488573

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	new-20170302-c0023234
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2009-02-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594488573

The Book of Night Women

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