The Book of Night Women, Marlon James
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The Book of Night Women

Author: Marlon James

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 15 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/19/2009


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by SALLY on 2011-04-20 15:39:09

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It takes you in so many directions at the same time. You are disgusted, angry, sympathetic, happy, curious, amazed all within seconds of each other. Read it, you won't be disappointed.