Winner · The Booker Prize 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
novel by Marlon James
"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"--
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- postmodern fiction
- Pages
- 704
- ISBN
- 9788490266083
- Subjects
- Assassins, Assassination attempts, Reggae musicians, Fiction, Rastafarians, History, Oral history, FICTION / Historical
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