A thrilling, ambitious . . . intense (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.
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 singerâs 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 assassinsâ fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is Jamesâs fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaicaâs history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of charactersâassassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghostsâJames 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 âexhilaratingâ (The New York Times) epic thatâs been called âa tour de forceâ (The Wall Street Journal).
Dimensions:130 x 200
Author: Marlon James
ISBN: 9781780746357
Format: Paperback
Pages 688
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