![]() ![]() Pile them up: language, imagery, technique, imagination. James imbues his lively, energetic prose and unforgettable characters with a precocious wisdom about love, race, and history that none of us has ever seen before, but that feels alive, even definitive, as soon weave read it.a aColin Channer, author of "The Girl with the Golden Shoes" aPile them up, a Marlon James character says repeatedly, and Marlon does just that. And like the best, and most dangerous, of stories, it seems as if it was just waiting to be told.a aColum McCann, author of "Zoli" and "Dancer" aWith "The Book of Night Women," Marlon James proves himself to be Jamaicaas answer to Junot DA-az, Edwidge Danticat, and Zadie Smith. ![]() Like the best of literature, "The Book of Night Women" deserves to be passed down hand to hand, generation to generation.a aDinaw Mengestu, author of "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" a"The Book of Night Women" is a slave narrative, a story of rebellion, and a testament to the human heart in conflict with itself. ![]() AMarlon James has written an exquisite, haunting and beautiful novel, impossible to resist. ![]()
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