John Crow's Devil [Paperback]

The incredible debut novel from 2015 Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James

Finalist for theLos Angeles TimesBook Prizeand theCommonwealth 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 Book Review, Editors' Choice

A Brief History of Seven Killingsmight have won the Booker, andBlack Leopard, Red Wolfmight be the nextGame of Thrones, but if you're looking for an entry point into the much-lauded, highly raucous mind of Marlon James, his 2005 debut could actually be the place to start: it's just as powerful and intricately written as James's later works, but it's quite a bit shorter, and easier to carry around with you everywhere you go, something you will surely want to do.
--Literary Hub, 10 Debut Novels Nobody Reads Anymore--But Should

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

Set in James's native Jamaica, this dynamic, vernacular debut sings of the fierce battle between two flawed preachers...an exciting read.
--Publishers Weekly

A mesmerizing treatise on the nature of good and evil, faith and madness, guilt and forgiveness, eloquently captured in a microcosm of society.
--Booklist

John Crow's Devil?engages the political legacy of Frantz Fanon without sacrificing the power of fiction...There's a temptation to compare?John Crow's Devil?to novels by Toni Morrison or Earl Lovelace, among others, and there are certainly similarities to those works in this one. There is even an echo of Faulkner in the metls(