The debut novel of the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015
Jamaica, 1957
On a day beginning with a bad omen – black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows – a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church and congregation. Promising vengeance and damnation, he wastes no time delivering both, and in doing so starts a power struggle that sets the village of Gibbeah on a path to destruction.
With language as taut as classic works by Cormac Mc Carthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison,
John Crow’s Devil is a terrifying and moving novel about religious mania, redemption, sexual obsession and the eternal struggle between the righteous and the wicked.
Jamaica, 1957
On a day beginning with a bad omen – black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows – a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church and congregation. Promising vengeance and damnation, he wastes no time delivering both, and in doing so starts a power struggle that sets the village of Gibbeah on a path to destruction.
With language as taut as classic works by Cormac Mc Carthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison,
John Crow’s Devil is a terrifying and moving novel about religious mania, redemption, sexual obsession and the eternal struggle between the righteous and the wicked.
€9.38
Format EPUB ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781780748504 ● Publisher Oneworld Publications ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5485189 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
Requires a DRM capable ebook reader
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
257,183 Ebooks in this category
