Two thing you should know if you want to know her. A black baby wiggling in blood on the floor with skin darker than midnight but the greenest eyes anybody ever done see. A weak womb done kill one life to birth another. Two black legs spread wide and a mother mouth screaming. It soon come to pass when red no different from white or blue or black or nothing. Not when blood spurt from the skin, or spring from the axe, the cat- o’-nine, the whip, the cane and the blackjack and every day in slave life is a day that colour red. Not when the midwife know that the mother shed too much blood, and she who don’t reach fourteen birthday yet speak curse ’pon the chile and the papa, and then she drop down dead like old horse.
Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. People think blood red, but blood don’t got no colour. (Disclaimer: This excerpt contains content that may not be appropriate for all readers.)
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breathtakingly daring and wholly in command of his craft. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans.
Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century.
"An undeniable success.” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪ true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. From the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings
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