Marlon James

The Book of Night Women is a 2009 fiction novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. The book was first published in hardback on February 19, 2009 through Riverhead Books and follows Lilith, a young woman born into slavery that challenges the boundaries of what is expected of her.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize One of the Top 10 Books – Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesA “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf In A Brief History of Seven Killings, …

The New York Times Bestseller "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A …

The incredible debut novel from 2015 Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James"A powerful first novel . . . Writing with assurance and control, James uses his small-town drama to suggest the larger anguish of a postcolonial society struggling for its own identity."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"Elements …