JAMES MARLON

Η ΣΥΝΤΟΜΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΕΠΤΑ ΦΟΝΩΝ
Στις 3 του Δεκέμβρη του 1976 δυο αυτοκίνητα σταματούν έξω από το σπίτι του Μπομπ Μάρλεϊ, στο Κίνγκστον της Τζαμάικας. Βγαίνουν από μέσα επτά τύποι με όπλα -ή μήπως οκτώ;- ορμούν στο σπίτι του τραγουδιστή και με 56 πυροβολισμούς επιχειρούν να τον δολοφονήσουν, αλλά δεν τα καταφέρνουν. Οι δράστες παρέμειναν άγνωστοι και ασύλληπτοι. Με επίκεντρο αυτό το γεγονός ο Μάρλον Τζέιμς γράφει μια ιστορία που ούτε σύντομη είναι ούτε μόνο επτά φόνους αφορά. Στην ιστορία εμπλέκονται πράκτορες μυστικών υπηρεσιών, γκάνγκστερ, έμποροι ναρκωτικών, πολιτικοί,...
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Μαύρος πάνθηρας, κόκκινος λύκος
Ο Ιχνηλάτης, ένας κυνηγός γνωστός και στα δεκατρία βασίλεια για τη φοβερή όσφρηση που διαθέτει, βρίσκει ό,τι χαμένο ή εξαφανισμένο του ζητούν με όπλο τη μοναδική αυτή ικανότητά του, κάτι που κάνει πάντα μόνος του. Η μόνη φορά που δεν το κάνει, είναι όταν αναλαμβάνει να βρει ένα αγόρι που έχει εξαφανιστεί. Μαζί με μια ομάδα περίεργους κυνηγούς, από έναν γίγαντα, μέχρι μια μάγισσα και έναν πάνθηρα που μεταμορφώνεται σε άνθρωπο, ακολουθεί τη μυρωδιά του αγοριού σε τόπους μαγεμένους και σκοτεινούς, σε επικίνδυνες λίμνες, σε ποτάμια και δάση, α...
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(P/B) MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING
In this mighty follow-up to his number one bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Booker-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to tell the story of Sogolon the Moon Witch. Part adventure story, part tale of an indomitable woman, Moon Witch, Spider King chronicles the antagonist-turned-antihero's journey from an ostracised no-name girl, hated by her brothers and made to live in a termite hill, to a woman with fully developed powers engaged in a long-standing feud with the Aesi, chanc...
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(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS
JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters - slum kids, drug lords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising,...
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(P/B) THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN
This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women - a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt - recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence and fear. But as Lilith comes of age and begins to understand her own feelings and identity, she dares to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman. And as rebellions simmer and unspoken jealousies intensify, Lilith's powers a...
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(P/B) BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF
Tracker is a hunter. Known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose, he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters, each stranger and more dangerous than the last. As the mismatched gang follow the boy's scent from perfumed citadels to enchanted darklands, Tracker starts to wonder: Who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him from being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?...
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(P/B) MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE REVOLUTIONARY DARK STAR TRILOGY IS HERE! Booker Prize-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology and fantasy to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch and a mystery with many answers... Part adventure, part chronicle of an indomitable woman - the witch Sogolon - who bows to no man, this is an unforgettable exploration of power, personality, and the places where they overlap, set in a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. In the words of Neil Gaiman, Jame...
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(P/B) JOHN CROW'S DEVIL
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 McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, John...
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(P/B) BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF
'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman. In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine an ancient world, a lost child, an extraordinary hunter...
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(H/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS
On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the next day he left the country, and didn't return for two years. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston, with information surfacing at odd times,...
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