A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
The night someone tried to kill Bob Marley.
you want Jamaica's political violence told by the people inside it not the people reporting on it
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1976. Someone shoots Bob Marley two days before a peace concert in Kingston. James uses that moment as the entry point into a novel that spans thirty years and dozens of voices — gang members, CIA operatives, journalists, ghosts, drug mules in New York. The original Jamaican title was going to be A Brief History of Seven Killings because seven people died that night. The novel that resulted is 700 pages of polyphonic fury — Jamaica's political history told from inside the garrison communities the politicians armed and abandoned. Won the Booker Prize. The most ambitious Caribbean novel ever written.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Jamaica • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Jamaican author
- Themes
- Atrocity UnmaskedWitness
