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false <![CDATA[The Book of Night Women]]> 4682558 2 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. 4733113 19 2 2009 The Book of Night Women total:174|5:87|4:59|3:22|2:2|1:4| 174 745 531 75 5 16 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 22:06:34 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 19:54:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 10:52:18 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 18:18:06 -0700 2009
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The Book of Night Women

By Marlon James

417 pages. Riverhead Books. $26.95

Reviewed by Kaiama L. Glover

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Marlon James's second novel is both beautifully written and devastating...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 11:23:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 10:02:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:31:22 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 07:58:20 -0700 2009
Marlon James creates a seemingly tangible world with his use of dialect and the narrator's inside information. What a crue...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Apr 21 17:01:23 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 17:05:33 -0700 2009
The story takes place in the late 1700's on a sugar cane plantation in Jamaica. Lilith is a young mulatto woman born on ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 12:37:18 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 19:06:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 21:59:39 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 10:29:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 04 11:07:26 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 04:05:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:07:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:51:06 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:56:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 05:34:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 05:44:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 18:14:42 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:14:52 -0700 2009
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