John Crow's Devil
From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
John Crow's Devil
From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
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'Feels contemporary and necessary, exploring how religion can be used as justification for mankind's deepest urges'.
'A relentless excavation of an isolated village in which sex, violence and Jesus form a combustible trinity of catalysts and salves'.
‘Dense, lyrical and richly over the top’.
'Introduces us to his extraordinary talent...James jumps effortlessly between cut-glass English that would not disgrace Jane Austen, and the ripe, flexible, witty language of his childhood. Superb'.
'James's slice of Caribbean gothic has terrific power and verve: it's quite a debut'.
'John Crow's Devil is undoubtedly breathtaking for its imagination and its storytelling'.
‘A powerful first novel … Writing with assurance and control, James uses his small-town drama to suggest the larger anguish of a postcolonial society struggling for its own identity.’
‘A writer whose importance can scarcely be questioned.’
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.