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

James, Marlon

 
9781780748498: John Crow's Devil: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1780748493 ISBN 13: 9781780748498
Verlag: Oneworld Publications, 2015

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marlon James was born in Jamaica. He is the author of John Crow’s 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.

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The award-winning debut from the critically-acclaimed author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

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Verlag
Oneworld Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1780748493
ISBN 13 
9781780748498
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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