Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a “musical, electric, fantastically profane“ (The New York Times) epic that explores the tumultuous world of Jamaica over the past three decades. James deftly chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents, even ghosts – over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately re-emerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s.