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

James, Marlon

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ISBN 10: 1780748493 ISBN 13: 9781780748498

Casa editrice: Oneworld Publications, 2015

Riassunto

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 Crow's 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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Recensione

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

A writer whose importance can scarcely be questioned. --Independent

L'autore

MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica. He is the author of The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His debut novel, John Crow's Devil (Oneworld, 2015), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editors Choice. A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld 2014), his third novel, won the Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and featured in over twenty best books of the year lists. His short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Esquire and Granta. He teaches at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA.

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• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780748493
• ISBN 13: 9781780748498
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240