The Book of Night Women

The Book of Night Women is a broad, striking novel that is a remarkable triumph of both voice and storytelling. It tells the narrative of Lilith, a slave born on a Jamaican sugar plantation towards the end of the eighteenth century. Even before she is born, the slave women who surround her detect a terrible force that they—and she—will learn to adore and dread. The Night Women, as they are known, have been organizing a slave uprising for a long time, and when Lilith reaches maturity and displays the scope of her power, they view her as the key to their plans.

But, as she comes to terms with her own emotions, wants, and identity, Lilith begins to test the boundaries of what is possible for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. Life on the plantation is fraught with hazardous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman brutality, and very human emotion—between slave and master, slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith has found herself in the center of it all. And it's all told in one of the most daring literary styles to grace the page in a long time—and the source of that voice is one of the book's most interesting mysteries.

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Author: Marlon James
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