A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner): A

A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner): A Novel

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade

One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 â€“ Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

A â€œthrilling, ambitious . . . intenseâ€ (Los Angeles Times) novelÂ that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope.

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singerâ€™s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassinsâ€™ fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is Jamesâ€™s fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaicaâ€™s history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of charactersâ€”assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghostsâ€”James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an â€œexhilaratingâ€ (The New York Times) epic thatâ€™s been called â€œa tour de forceâ€ (The Wall Street Journal).
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 42199927
Color Yellow
ReleaseDate 2015-09-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594633942

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	42199927
Color	Yellow
ReleaseDate	2015-09-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594633942

A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner): A Novel

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