A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)
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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner) by Marlon James
Winner of the Booker PrizeOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A "thrilling, ambitious . . . intense" (Los Angeles Times) novel 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 brilliant storytelling with his unrivaled skills of characterization and meticulous eye for detail to forge an enthralling 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 gunmen stormed the singer'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 much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. Rumors abound regarding the assassins' fates, and there are suspicions that the attack was politically motivated.
A Brief History of Seven Killings delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond. 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 reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate.
Gripping and inventive, shocking and irresistible, A Brief History of Seven Killings is a mesmerizing modern classic of power, mystery, and insight.
Marlon James was born in the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1970. A Short History of Seven Killings is his most recent book. He's also the author of The Book of Night Ladies, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award in 2010, as well as being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was a New York Times Editors' Pick and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for First Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. James is a Minneapolis resident.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594486005 |
| ISBN 10 | 159448600X |
| Title | A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner) |
| Author | Marlon James |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2014-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Prizes | Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2015, Winner of Booker Prize 2015, Winner of Minnesota Book Award 2015, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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