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

ISBN-13: 9781780748498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str.

Marlon James

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Feels contemporary and necessary, exploring how religion can be used as justification for mankind's deepest urges'.

Press Association

O autorze

James, Marlon

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.