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James, Marlon.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
[Libby] :
A Novel.
Penguin Publishing Group,
2014.
Jamaican.
literary fiction.
Jamaica.
new york times bestseller.
Historical.
killing.
Fiction.
Marlon.
bestseller.
Bob Marley.
assassination.
Alternate History.
Booker Prize.
man booker.
booker.
marlon james.
Man Booker Prize.
Man Booker Prize Winner.
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Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:<b>Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize<br /></b><br /> <b>One of <i>Entertainment Weekly's</i> Top 10 Books of the Decade</b><br /> <br /> <b>One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 – Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <b><br /></b><br /> <b>A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of <i>Black Leopard, Red Wolf</i></b><br /> In <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i>, 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.<br /> 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 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 much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. Rumors abound regarding the assassins’ fates, and there are suspicions  that the attack was politically motivated.<br /> <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i> delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. James deftly chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents,  even ghosts – over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate.<br /> Gripping and inventive, shocking and irresistible, <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i> is a mesmerizing modern classic of power, mystery, and insight.
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Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
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