Marlon James

Doskonały debiut literacki autora Krótkiej historii siedmiu zabójstw, wyróżnionej Nagrodą Bookera. Obrazoburczy i poetycki zarazem. Pociągający i odpychający. Tylko Marlon James potrafi tak igrać z uczuciami czytelników.Pierwsza powieść w literackiej karierze Jamajczyka to książka niezwykła, ukazująca z empatią i brutalną szczerością rodzimą wyspę...

This 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 Night Women a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence and fear. But as Lilith comes of age and begins to...

On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the next day he left the country, and didn't...

Described by the New York Times as both beautifully written and devastating, The Book of Night Women is a startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery a tour de force of voice and storytelling. At the heart of the novel is the extraordinary character of Lilith, a spirited slave girl struggling to transcend the violence into which she is born,...