\*\*\*\*Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize A recipient of the 2015 American Book Award One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 Michiko Kakutani, *The New York Times*\*\* **A *New York Times Book Review* Notable Book** **Named a best book of the year by:** ***The New York Times***
A Brief History of Seven Killings : A Novel
β Scribed by James, Marlon
- Book ID
- 108049998
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 793 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780698170506
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β¦ Synopsis
"No book this fall is more impressive than A Brief History of Seven Killings. " (Publishers Weekly)
**From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes one of the year's most anticipated novels, a lyrical, masterfully written epic 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...
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On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the
InΒ *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