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A Brief History of Seven Killings : A Novel

by Marlon James
A Brief History of Seven Killings : A Novel - Thryft
A Brief History of Seven Killings : A Novel - Thryft
  • Booker Prize (2015)
  • American Book Award (2015)
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2015)
  • PEN Open Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2015)
  • OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Fiction (2015)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014)
  • Green Carnation Prize (2015)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story (2015)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

A Brief History of Seven Killings : A Novel

by Marlon James
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ISBN: 9781594633942
Authors: Marlon James
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date of Publication: 2015-09-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Literature, Mystery, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.89
(rated by 34573 readers)

Description

From the acclaimed author of  The Book of Night Women  comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.  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. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the �70s, to the crack wars in �80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the �90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James’ place among the great literary talents of his generation.
 
  • Booker Prize (2015)
  • American Book Award (2015)
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2015)
  • PEN Open Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2015)
  • OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Fiction (2015)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2014)
  • Green Carnation Prize (2015)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story (2015)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.