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The Book of Night Women
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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The Book of Night Women
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Publisher's Summary
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.
What the critics say
"Both beautifully written and devastating... Writing in the spirit of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker but in a style all his own, James has conducted an experiment in how to write the unspeakable - even the unthinkable. And the results of that experiment are an undeniable success.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“The narrative voice is so assured and the descriptions so detailed and believable that one can’t help being engaged. This is a book to love.... The Book of Night Women is hard to pick up, even harder to put down...and it deserves to be read." (Chicago Tribune)
"The Book of Night Women is a searing read, full of blood, tears, and the stench of misery. It’s barbaric and ancient, but also familiar in the ways that people, consumed by their differences and divisions, easily overlook all that binds them - the desire for independence, the right to a civilized life, and the need to give and receive love.” (The Boston Globe)
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- Carla
- 2019-02-12
very good.
very well written and read. the writing was very vivid and descriptive. the narrator did a fantastic job with the performance.
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- Anastasia Beaverhausen
- 2022-06-07
Powerful
Marlon James is one of the few male authors with the ability to write from a female perspective with authenticity. The word that first comes to mind when hearing this novel is raw. It is raw and unforgiving in its emotions and descriptions.
This book also reminded me of one of my favourite quotes by Solzhenitsyn, from The Gulag Archipelago :
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts.
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- Kathryn
- 2018-07-02
Horrifying and brilliant
Difficult to listen to but a timely reminder of the inhumanity of slavery. Beautifully read.
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- Nicole Bee
- 2020-12-21
Reels you in little by little
I’ll admit, I started this book with a quizzical eyebrow. The beginning was a bit confusing for me, and I had a lot of “What was she seeing?... Why was she there?... Wait.. who’s that?” Yet each chapter would reel me in, and I’d want to know more. I was so fascinated by these well-rounded characters and felt like I was reading a Caribbean slave narrative... maybe my own ancestor, perhaps. I borrowed it from my local library and had to own it.
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- Melissa
- 2021-03-13
the accent of the narrator
Would have been nice to hear this story in an authentic Jamaican accent. The accent was somewhat off-putting but I LOVED the story.
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- Emily Heard
- 2019-11-06
Very unnerving
There was a lot to unpack about here about slavery, slave women and the abuse that happened on the plantations but beyond that there was much to be said about how very human people can be in times of suffering.
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