A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS ( WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015)
Language: English Publication details: Oneworld Publications 2015/06/04Edition: 1Description: 688ISBN:- 9781780746357
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Marley, Bob--Assassination attempts--Fiction. Assassins--Fiction. Oral history--Fiction. Reggae musicians--Jamaica--Fiction. Rastafarians--Jamaica--Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Historical. Jamaica--History--1962---Fiction. New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- the story of an international legend
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Summary
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"-- Provided by publisher.
MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica. He is the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld 2014), which also won the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and featured in over twenty best books of the year lists. His debut novel, John Crow’s Devil (Oneworld, 2015), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and his second novel, The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA
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