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- ISBN 9780861545582
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Oneworld Publications
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A SPECIAL EDITION OF THE 2015 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER, WITH A BRAND-NEW FOREWORD AND A Q&A WITH THE AUTHOR
* With a new foreword by Bernardine Evaristo *
* One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' *
Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing.
The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.
In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James reimagines the story behind this near-mythical event, chronicling the lives of a host of unforgettable characters from street kids, drug lords and journalists, to prostitutes and secret service agents.
Gripping, inventive and ambitious, it is one of the most mesmerising and influential novels of the twenty-first century.
'Showcases the extraordinary capabilities of a writer whose importance can scarcely be questioned' Independent
MARLON JAMES was born in Jamaica. He is the author of John Crow’s Devil (Oneworld, 2015), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and The Book of Night Women (Oneworld, 2009), which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld, 2014), won the Booker Prize in 2015, the Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and the Green Carnation Prize, and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Marlon James is also the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first book in his Dark Star Trilogy and a National Book Award finalist, and its sequel, Moon Witch, Spider King.
