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Marlon James

    November 24, 1970

    Marlon James writes with a bold urgency, shaping his narratives into dynamic, sonorous tapestries. His works delve deeply into the resonant depths of history, exploring complex human experiences within settings as stark as his characters. James's storytelling is often multi-voiced, employing a rich palette of perspectives to render intricate viewpoints and uncover unflinching truths about power, betrayal, and endurance.

    Marlon James
    Tod und Teufel in Gibbeah
    Black leopard, red wolf
    John Crow's devil
    A Brief History of Seven Kilings
    Moon Witch, Spider King
    The book of night women
    • 2022

      In this stunning follow-up to Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine an ancient world, a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers... Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.

      Moon Witch, Spider King
    • 2019

      Black leopard, red wolf

      • 720 pages
      • 26 hours of reading
      3.4(12709)Add rating

      Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy.Following the lost boy's scent from one ancient city to another, into dense forests and across deep rivers, Tracker starts to wonder- Who is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?Drawing from vivid African history and mythology, Marlon James weaves a saga of breathtaking adventure and powerful intrigue - a mesmerising, unique meditation on the nature of truth and power.

      Black leopard, red wolf
    • 2015

      Marlon James recounts a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957 in language as taute as Cormac McCarthy's and infused with a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison.

      John Crow's devil
    • 2014

      Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – slum kids, one-night stands, drug lords, girlfriends, gunmen, journalists, and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century

      A Brief History of Seven Kilings
    • 2009

      The book of night women

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.5(497)Add rating

      Lilith was 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.

      The book of night women