A Brief History of Seven Killings: Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize

Author(s): Marlon James

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On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.

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Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015.

An explicit and unforgiving look at the political and cultural life of Jamaica in the 1970s. Revolving around the attempted assassination of Bob Marley, Marlon James’ Man Booker prize-winning novel is not one for the faint-hearted

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'A really extraordinary book' Salman Rushdie 'Dazzling' Guardian

MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica. He is the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld 2014), which also won the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and featured in over twenty best books of the year lists. His debut novel, John Crow's Devil (Oneworld, 2015), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice, and his second novel, The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA.

General Fields

  • : 9781780749761
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 1.012
  • : October 2015
  • : 234mm X 153mm X 44mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Marlon James
  • : Hardback
  • : 1512
  • : en
  • : 813.6
  • : 704
  • : FA