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A Brief History of Seven Killings : A Novel

✍ 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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✦ 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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