A Brief History of Seven Killings
New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. Later printing. Paperback. 688pp. Octavo. Yellow illustrated wraps. New. Item #60140
ISBN: 9781594633942
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins’ fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James’s fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond.
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