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A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS (BOOKER PRIZE...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade One of
the Top 10 Books of 2014 - Michiko Kakutani  The New York Times 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 masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and
his meticulous eye for detail to forge a 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 unnamed 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 rumors abounded
regarding the assassins' fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James's fictional
exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica's history and beyond. Deftly
spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters-assassins  drug
dealers  journalists  and even ghosts-James brings to life the people who walked the streets of
1970s Kingston  who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York  and who reemerged into a
radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive  A Brief History of Seven
Killings is an exhilarating (The New York Times) epic that's been called a tour de force (The
Wall Street Journal).

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