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A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015

by Marlon James
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/06/2015

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JAMAICA, 1976

Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award

From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters - slum kids, one-night stands, drug lords, girlfriends, gunmen, journalists, and even the CIA.

Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century.

Featured in our Best Books of 2015

ISBN:
9781780746357
9781780746357
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-06-2015
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
704
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x30mm
Marlon James

Marlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Book of Night Women, and John Crow's Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the NAACP Image Award. Marlon James is a professor at Macalester College in St Paul. He divides his time between Minnesota and New York.

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