A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James · 2014
Literary Fiction · ranked #158 in category
Winner · The Booker Prize, 2015
The attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 Jamaica radiates outward through decades and continents, told through more than seventy voices — gang members, CIA operatives, journalists, ghosts. James's Booker Prize-winning novel is enormous in ambition and in length, capturing the chaos and violence of a specific political moment through an extraordinary polyphony.
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