John Crow's Devil - Marlon James

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Résumé :

The long-awaited paperback reissue of the acclaimed Jamaican author's debut novel.

Biographie:

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York....

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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize A New York Times Editors' Choice Marlon James's recent novel The Book of Night Women (Riverhead) has been heralded as one of the best novels of 2009 and was also a New York Times Editors' Choice...