A brief history of seven killings - marlon james

Winner of the Man Booker Prize One of Entertainment Weeklys 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 singers 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 Jamess fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaicas 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 thats been called a tour de force ( The Wall Street Journal ).