John Crow's Devil

Author Marlon James

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The long-awaited paperback reissue of Booker–Prize Winner Marlon James's debut novel.

—Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings.

—Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

“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.” —New York Times, Editors’ Choice

“Elements coalesce in a Jamaican stew spicier than jerk chicken. First novelist James moves effortlessly between lyrical patois and trenchant observations . . . It’s 150-proof literary rum guaranteed to intoxicate and enchant. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal, Starred Review

This stunning debut novel tells the story of…

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August 3, 2010

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Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. 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…