Marlon James

In the village of Gibbeah - where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives - magic coexists with religion and good and evil are never as they seem. There, a battle is fought between two men of God. This stunning debut novel is about religious mania, redemption, sexual obsession and the eternal struggle inside us all between the righteous and the wicked. John Crow's Devil is the kind of stylistically mature first novel that often comes at the beginning of an enduring career.' - Colin Channer'

John Crow's Devil

Yulande Lindsay

This is a debut novel. A...DEBUT...novel. It is written with the assurance of someone who has been publishing for decades. It is written by someone who knows his people, knows his religion and who knows himself. John Crow's Devil seethes with hate, fear, guilt and rage. Ostensibly about a spiritual battle between two men of God, better yet, between Good and Evil, it is so much more. It examines the inner fears and desires of the people of Gibbeah, the small Jamaican town where the book is set. It lays open the need to follow the strongest among us, it exposes the petty craving for power or at least proximity to it. It is brutal, beautiful, chilling and redemptive. John Crow's Devil goes on that list. You know, that list every avid reader has of their top ten books. It sits there...triumphant.

Marlon James recounts a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957 in language as taute as Cormac McCarthy's and infused with a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison.

John Crow's Devil

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