The Book of Night Women (Unabridged) The Book of Night Women (Unabridged)

The Book of Night Women (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings

"An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review

The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they—and she—will come to both revere and fear.

The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. 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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
RM
Robin Miles
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
15:45
hr min
RELEASED
2009
February 19
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
768.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Perfect app 4 me! ,

Brilliant production!

I loved the accents but I am a language person. This one was a marathon listen - I simply could not get enough!

~Hey Love~ ,

Great Book

I enjoyed this book. Such a great audiobook.The Jamaican accent made me chuckle however, the book’s content more than made up for it. I highly recommend.

Jordan12345$&$ ,

The Book of Night Women

I never finished. The accent was so thick, I couldn’t understand what the reader was trying to say.

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