John Crow''s Devil: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

Name: John Crow''s Devil: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Brand: Oneworld Publications
SKU: 9781780748498
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Marlon James

The debut novel of the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015

Jamaica, 1957

On a day beginning with a bad omen black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church and congregation. Promising vengeance and damnation, he wastes no time delivering both, and in doing so starts a power struggle that sets the village of Gibbeah on a path to destruction.

With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, John Crows Devil is a terrifying and moving novel about religious mania, redemption, sexual obsession and the eternal struggle between the righteous and the wicked.

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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 10 Sep 2015
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781780748498

About Marlon James

Marlon James was born in Jamaica. He is the author of John Crows Devil (Oneworld 2015) a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize and The Book of Night Women (Oneworld 2009) which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. His third novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld 2014) won the Man Booker Prize in 2015 the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Esquire and Granta. He is currently the Writer-in-Residence and Associate Professor of English at Macalester College Minnesota USA.